Heatmaps showing different kinds of inequality, with code.
Tag: social class
Framing social class with sample selection
Venn diagrams to help people think about for screening subjects for social class status.
New data show change in the class (identity) structure
Updating a 2013 post with the 2016 General Social Survey. Not a lot of interpretation, just some facts. The GSS has, since 1972, asked Americans: If you were asked to use one of four names for your social class, which would you say you belong in: the lower class, the working class, the middle class,…
Continue reading ➞ New data show change in the class (identity) structure
Social class divides the futures of high school students
A big crushing of expectations in the formative years at the end of high school.
Marriage, divorce, remarriage, age, education (Coontz tabs edition)
Less marriage, and more marriage instability, among those with less than BA degrees.
The remarkable centrality of Unequal Childhoods
The book whose influence reaches into many areas of the discipline.
How many Black scholars does it take to have any Black scholars?
Whatever the reasons, it's a shame more Black scholars haven't been there.
Percent describing themselves as “lower class” hits 40-year high
Used be about 4-5% were "lower class." Not anymore.
Charles Murray on his propaganda playing field
By treating American Enterprise Institute representatives as legitimate experts we play into their diabolical schemes.
Gingrich channels William Julius Wilson?
But the presidential candidate doesn't pick up on the difference between "culture of poverty" and "social isolation."
Family Inequality 