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 ...

Of all classes, the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. — John Kenneth Galbraith “Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior.” This is the title of a research report by ...

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 ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Plenty of previous studies, including one I reported on here in Second Opinion, ...

Social class can be hard to discern when billionaires wear hoodies and work late into the night instead of dressing resplendently and lounging poolside like the wealthy of the past. But people are as ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jack Kelly covers career growth, job market and workplace trends. In America, we’d like to believe that there is no such thing as ...

Stella Chatzitheochari receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. We know very little about the inequalities experienced by disabled people in the UK today. My research finds that disabled young ...