First-generation students (FGSs) have received a great deal of attention in education
research, practice, and policy. The difficulty of understanding and subsequently addressing …

Over the past decade, the topic of social class in organizations has enjoyed unexpected
growth. However, management researchers lack an in-depth understanding of what we …

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a
negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco …

Comparison is one of the most powerful tools used in intellectual inquiry, since an
observation made repeatedly is given more credence than is a single observation. In …

Researchers have paid increasing attention to issues of access and retention among first-
generation college students but have focused less on their post-college outcomes. We …

Americans are persuaded by the power of individualism and thus believe that individuals
shape their own life chances by the choices they make (Warner, Meeker, and Eels 2006). As …

Partly because of the widespread tendency for Americans to think of themselves as “middle
class,” subjective class identity often does not correspond to objective class position. This …

Discourses of social class are an important object of study because how people talk about
social class can translate into how they act on the basis of social class. Using data from sixty …

In an era in which class divisions are becoming starker than ever, some individuals are
choosing to marry across class. The Power of the Past traces the lives of a subset of these …

Consuming Football in Late Modern Life explores the phenomenon of football (soccer)
fandom as consumption in the age of late modernity. By centralising fandom within the …