From past research on the relationship of class origins and education, social scientists generally agree that, although class membership is a strong determinant of who goes to college, it does not ...

I. What do you Think About Class at Harvard? “I think Harvard hits the mark with regards to socioeconomic and racial diversity; it could be better, it could be worse”—Nicholas T. Rinehart ’14 “It’s ...

The new study into musical tastes and social factors, like class, comes from Canada, hailing from the sociology department at he University of British Columbia. The researchers show that a person’s ...

Whether individuals grow up in a working-class environment or in an academic household, they take on behaviors that are typical for their class -- so goes the hypothesis. A social-psychologist has now ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The rich are different than you and me. Ernest Hemingway: Yes, they have more money. - apocryphal exchange One of the important realizations by psychology researchers over the ...

Even though she has lived in Topeka her whole life, Dominique Becher didn't know a lot about the local nonprofits and community organizations helping families in extreme need. But in taking a Washburn ...

The 2015 MCAT includes two new subject areas: psychology and sociology. This new 95-minute “Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior” section is another strain on many a weary ...

Alfred University Assistant Professor of Sociology Meredith Field grew up in rural Pennsylvania where annual harvest ...