Social Class Talk Is Taboo: But When It Comes To Academic Achievement...

Sunday, February 16, 2014 - 08:20 in Psychology & Sociology

Americans don't like to talk about social class, we threw out the British because they believed an act of birth made them superior. In America, no class is better than any other - we are the only culture that thanks a waiter for interrupting our conversation at dinner in order to slosh water all over the table refilling a glass. Psychologists from Northwestern and Stanford writing in Psychological Science read more

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