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Evidence for the reproduction of social class in brief speech
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Significance Social class mobility narratives pervade public consciousness in the United States, and yet patterns of actual mobility remain relatively constrained.
Michael W. Kraus +3 more
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Negotiating Socially Optimal Allocations of Resources [PDF]
Journal Of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 25, pages
315-348, 2006, 2011 A multiagent system may be thought of as an artificial society of autonomous software agents and we can apply concepts borrowed from welfare economics and social choice theory to assess the social welfare of such an agent society. In this paper, we study an abstract negotiation framework where agents can agree on multilateral deals to exchange bundles ...
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Closing achievement gaps with a utility-value intervention: Disentangling race and social class.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2016 Many college students abandon their goal of completing a degree in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) when confronted with challenging introductory-level science courses.
J. Harackiewicz +4 more
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Dynamics of Social Diversity [PDF]
J. Stat. Mech. L11002 (2005), 2005 We introduce and solve analytically a model for the development of disparate social classes in a competitive population. Individuals advance their fitness by competing against those in lower classes, and in parallel, individuals decline due to inactivity. We find a phase transition from a homogeneous, single-class society to a hierarchical, multi-class
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Signs of Social Class: The Experience of Economic Inequality in Everyday Life
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2017 By some accounts, global economic inequality is at its highest point on record. The pernicious effects of this broad societal trend are striking: Rising inequality is linked to poorer health and well-being across countries, continents, and cultures.
Michael W. Kraus +2 more
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How the American Working Class Views the “Working Class”
Humanities, 2019 This article reviews the complications in understanding some of the conflicting tenets of American working-class ethos, especially as it unfolds in the college classroom.
William H. Thelin
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Populism and the Reshaping of the Political Imaginary
Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary, 2020 From a sociosemiotic perspective, this paper argues that, independently of what it might be from the point of view of its genus, populism implies a challenge to the way in which the political is imagined by members of society, particularly by those that ...
Sebastián Moreno Barreneche
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Using social psychological interventions to make physics classes equitable and inclusive [PDF]
American Physical Society Forum on Education Newsletter, Fall
2019, ed. J. Docktor, pp. 4-5, (2019), 2021 This article summarizes why physics instructors should use social psychological interventions to make physics classes equitable and inclusive.
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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2018 Selection practices in education, such as tracking, may represent a structural obstacle that contributes to the social class achievement gap. We hypothesized that school’s function of selection leads evaluators to reproduce social inequalities in ...
A. Batruch +3 more
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A Tale of Two Professions in Elections: Party Choice Among Diaconal and Social Workers
Diaconia, 2020 Diaconal and social workers spend their days implementing social policy and exercising discretional power while being regularly exposed to social inequalities.
Johanna Kallio +2 more
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