Richard Rothstein is the author of Class and Schools, published jointly this spring by Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Economic Policy Institute (epinet.org). The 50th anniversary of ...

The plot of the famous musical My Fair Lady is based on the idea that the way we speak determines our position in society. The main character, Eliza Doolittle, becomes the unwitting target of a bet ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Before heading into your next job interview, you might want to review the ...

It's fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to be ...

For decades, researchers have debated how social class affects a person’s likelihood of helping others. There are two main schools of thought on the topic. One hypothesizes that because lower-income ...

People of a higher social class think they are better than others, even when they're not. That's according to the authors of a new study. Researchers set out to answer whether men and women of a ...

People who see themselves as being in a higher social class may tend to have an exaggerated belief that they are more adept than their equally capable lower-class counterparts, and that overconfidence ...

In season four of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” Paul Rudd plays a wealthy businessman named Bobby Newport who runs for city council because he’s looking for something “easy” to do. He is asked during ...