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 ...

London”s mayor, Boris Johnson, drew criticism late last year for saying that economic inequality can be attributed, in part, to IQ. “I am afraid that (the) violent economic centrifuge is operating on ...

Diversity is a familiar topic in many college psychology classes. Race, gender, sexual orientation, LGBTQ issues, ethnicity, and disability fall under the heading of diversity. Yet one topic, social ...

London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, drew criticism late last year for saying that economic inequality can be attributed, in part, to IQ. “I am afraid that [the] violent economic centrifuge [of competition] ...

Ilan Wiesel receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The relentless housing boom in Australia’s cities, especially Melbourne and Sydney, is often framed as an intergenerational conflict ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who were breastfed as infants climb the social-class ladder more readily as adults than those who were bottle-fed babies, UK researchers report. Dr. Richard M.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics) Estimates are derived for infant mortality rates (including neonatal and post neonatal) categorized by father's occupational ...

A well-off professional who smokes has a much lower survival rate than a non-smoking low-paid worker of the same sex, concludes new research. A well-off professional who smokes has a much lower ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Some studies that have found an association between childhood social class and adult blood pressure have shown that the association decreases or disappears after adjusting for body mass index in ...