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Modified link of Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - Social Class. Sep 18, 2026
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Signs of Social Class: The Experience of Economic Inequality in Everyday Life. Apr 16, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Saturday Extra - Contemporary social class. Dec 01, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Nebraska Pressbooks - An Introduction to Anthropology: the Biological and Cultural Evolution of Humans - What is Culture? Feb 10, 2025
Add new Web site: The British Psychological Society - How social class is reflected in our Psychology. Dec 16, 2024
Add new Web site: Stanford University - Social Class Disparities in Health and Education: Reducing Inequality by Applying a Sociocultural Self Model of Behavior. Jul 30, 2024
Add new Web site: LSE Research Online - The Economic Basis of Social Class (PDF). May 06, 2024
Add new Web site: Pressbooks @ Howard Community College - Introduction to Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World - Social Class in the United States. Mar 27, 2024
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Social Class is not about only Race. Jan 03, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Social Class. Nov 17, 2023
Add new Web site: Oklahoma State University Pressbooks - The Impacts of Social Class. Mar 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - Social Class. Jan 05, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Signs of Social Class: The Experience of Economic Inequality in Everyday Life. Oct 18, 2022
Media added. Oct 04, 2017
Article revised. Oct 04, 2017
Add new Web site: The History Learning Site - Social Class and Achievement. Apr 12, 2013
Article restructured. Aug 21, 2009
Added new Web site: The Victorian Web - Social Class. Dec 18, 2008
Added new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Social Class. Dec 18, 2008
Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - People Like Us. Dec 18, 2008
Media added. May 15, 2007
Article revised. Mar 01, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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