‘Are We Participating in a Thing That Is Not Even Working?’

I do not want to co-opt the struggles of coal miners, but I think making stuff for the algorithm is the closest thing I’ve ...
Inside Higher Ed

5 Reasons Faculty Should Collect Class Data

I know, I know. Here comes this guy saying that I should add more to my plate. I can’t deny that there’s effort involved, but I plan to make a case that you should collect, analyze and act on a wide ...
Psychology Today

The Relationship Between Social Class and Mental Health

In 1958, sociologist August Hollingshead and psychiatrist Fritz Redlich wrote a pioneering book called Social Class and Mental Illness. They began the book with a memorable claim: "Americans prefer to ...
The Columbian

Social Kitchen in Vancouver hosts cooking classes where experts offer ‘experiences’

I was skeptical when I first heard about Social Kitchen, which recently opened on the corner of Main Street and East Evergreen Boulevard in downtown Vancouver. It seemed a bit much to call cooking ...
Cal Alumni Association

Talking to Someone From a Different Social Class? Here’s How Your Body Reacts

We regularly interact with people across race and class lines, but those conversations sometimes go wrong. Lower-status people fear facing discrimination; higher-status people fear being accused of ...
IEEE

Class-Wise Representation Based Federated Learning for Non-IID Graph Data

Abstract: Federated Graph Learning (FGL) allows multiple participants to collaboratively train powerful Graph Neural Network (GNN) models in a distributed fashion without sharing raw data. It has ...
Wall Street Journal

Trump, the Working Class and Social Order

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kate Bachelder Odell, Joe Sternberg, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. Conservatives often say politics is downstream from culture. This is true ...
Phys.org

Cross-country study gathers new insight about the psychology of social class

Understanding the effects of social class on people's attitudes, thoughts, feelings and behaviors could have valuable implications, as it could help to tailor social and behavioral interventions ...
Star Tribune

Minnesotans have options for lifelong learning — for little or no cost

After working as a school librarian, it seemed natural for Marghe Tabar to continue her education once she retired. The 73-year-old St. Paul resident recently took two classes through the University ...
Psychology Today

Does Social Class Influence Generosity?

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 ...
The New Yorker

Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over

What, exactly, does a social network do? Is it a website that connects people with one another online, a digital gathering place where we can consume content posted by our friends? That’s certainly ...