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Accuracy of adults’ recall of childhood social class: findings from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
<b>Background</b>: Although adult reported childhood socioeconomic position has been related to health outcomes in many studies, little is known about the validity of such distantly recalled information.
Batty, G.D.   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Closing achievement gaps with a utility-value intervention: Disentangling race and social class.

open access: yesJournal 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Negotiating Socially Optimal Allocations of Resources [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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 ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Social democracy in the 21st century: still a class act? The place of class in Jospinism and Blairism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This article explores the enduring relevance (or otherwise) of class to social democracy through comparative analysis of the British Labour Party and the French Socialist Party (PS - Parti Socialiste ) at the beginning of the 21st century.
Clift, Ben
core   +1 more source

How the American Working Class Views the “Working Class”

open access: yesHumanities, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamics of Social Diversity [PDF]

open access: yesJ. 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
arxiv   +1 more source

Signs of Social Class: The Experience of Economic Inequality in Everyday Life

open access: yesPerspectives 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effects of Income Level on the Association Between Hypertension and Depression: 2010-2017 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2020
Objectives This study analyzed the associations of hypertension (HTN) with symptoms and diagnosis of depression by income level among Korean adults. Methods This study was based on the 2010-2017 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data;
San Kang, Hyeon Chang Kim
doaj   +1 more source

School Selection and the Social Class Divide: How Tracking Contributes to the Reproduction of Inequalities

open access: yesPersonality 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Populism and the Reshaping of the Political Imaginary

open access: yesIm@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
doaj  

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