No surprise: social status matters

Challenging our most cherished beliefs about college as a great equalizer and the job market as a level playing field, Lauren A. Rivera’s new book, Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs, exposes the class biases built into American notions about the best...

Knowledge of the Hidden Rules of Social Class

On October 8, Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington led a session on class at the Carl Fields Center at Princeton.  He handed out an exercise, similar to Peggy MacIntosh’s white privilege list, which was  developed by Patrick J. Ashton and adapted by Ruby K. Payne’s...