Research and Academia
Congratulations to the Editorial Team on the launch of The Journal of Class and Culture
A brand new journal launched in 2020, The Journal of Class and Culture recognizes that class as an analytical category has fallen out of favour within many areas of academia while the material impact of class continues to affect the lives of the working class who are strategically excluded from the public sphere. Questions of class do not correspond to single theories or practices nor are they geographically confined, and the journal recognizes questions of class as international, national, and regional.
Working-Class People Don't Need To "Break into the elite" - We Need To Change It
Research by sociologists Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison shows that working-class graduates holding a first-class degree are still less likely to be hired than middle-class candidates with a 2:2; they also found that middle-class graduates will earn on average £7,000 more than their counterparts from low-income backgrounds.
Why High-Class People Get Away with Incompetence
In this article, Heather Murphey explores recent research as to why those from Upper-Class backgrounds are more likely to get away with incompetence. Researchers said they hoped that the takeaway was not to strive to be overconfident. Wars, stock market crashes, and many other crises can be blamed on overconfidence, they said. So how do managers, employers, voters, and customers avoid overvaluing social class and being duped by incompetent wealthy people? Dr. Kennedy said she had been encouraged to find that if you show people actual facts about a person, the elevated status that comes with overconfidence often fades away.
“We may also need to punish overconfident behavior more than we do,” she said.
