Ronald L. Breiger raised an intriguing set of issues for mobility analysts by suggesting that attention must be paid not only to the pattern of mobility between social classes but also to the manner ...

This article develops a new explorative method for deriving social class categories from patterns of occupational mobility. In line with Max Weber, our research is based on the notion that, if class ...

How a 1950s study of social class and mental illness in New Haven changed the way people thought about mental health.

A characteristic of the hegemonic political and media culture of the United States is the near invisibility of social class as a major determinant of power. Race and gender have finally started to ...

You could call it class warfare, except the warfare is on the very idea of class. For generations now, various prominent scholars have decided we’d be better off abolishing it. Back in 1939, the ...

Over the past 40 years cities in the global North - like London, Berlin, Copenhagen and Amsterdam - changed from relatively poor and largely working-class cities to cities dominated by the middle ...