From Whence We Came

The Role of Social Class in Our Families of Origin

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8912948
AutoresMary J Heppner (autor correspondente), Anne B Scott (University of Missouri)
Ano2004
Volume32
Fascículo4
Páginas596-602
Data de publicação2004-06-12
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Counseling Psychologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0011-0000 • E-ISSN: 1552-3861
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0011000004265670
OpenAlexW2115489560
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas18

As Whiston and Keller’s integrative review illuminates, several contextual factors (e.g., particularly sex and race) have begun to receive attention in the past 20 years in the career development literature. Their review also demonstrates that social class and socioeconomic status (SES), as contextual variables, have not. Authors of this reaction hypothesizeaboutwhy this maybe the case. They alsoarguefor the importanceof investigating the entire spectrum of social class—lower, middle, and upper. In addition, recent methodological advances, such as the social class worldview model and instrumentation, which emphasize the potential power of subjective perceptions of class, are also highlighted. The authors urge us to go beyond merely acknowledging our lack of understanding of this potentially critical variable to developing a rigorous research agenda that places social class and SES variables at the core

Class (philosophy · Critical variable · Epistemology · Perception · Political science · Race (biology · Social class · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Career Development and Diversity · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Higher Education Research Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology