This seminar will review classical and contemporary approaches to social inequality, broadly conceived as the differential distribution of valued social resources and positions. The first half of the ...

Goldthorpe's class theory suggests that social class arises from employment relations in industrialised societies. This article assesses whether class in urban China can be approached from the same ...

Social stratification explains how class, status, and power shape life chances from access to education and healthcare to career opportunities and social mobility. This simplified breakdown shows how ...

Future historians will mark the last decade a watershed for U.S. higher education. Demand for college degrees by employers and families has been growing for generations, yet the politics of providing ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Rich, poor, middle class — parents often believe it’s their responsibility to shield their children from economic differences and social class. But new ...

In ancient Rome, the wealthy patricians ran the empire. The second-class plebeians worked the farms, baked the bread and built the walls. The rest of the workforce—a full third of the Roman population ...