Research Guides: Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Resources: Socioeconomic Status

Resources

Books can be found as ebooks via the links provided or as print items at the Library and Academic Resources Center. Stop by the Circulation Desk (front desk of the LARC) or contact us and we will be glad to help you locate or access these books

The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City by Ranita Ray
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2017-10-31
Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty. Hunger, homelessness, untreated illnesses, and long hours spent traveling between work, school, and home disrupted their dreams of upward mobility. While families, schools, nonprofit organizations, academics, and policy makers stress risk behaviors in their efforts to end the cycle of poverty, Ray argues that this strategy reinforces class and racial hierarchies and diverts resources that could better support marginalized youth's efforts to reach their educational and occupational goals.
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice by Jessica Wilkerson
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2019
Informed by labor struggles of the past as well as contemporary social justice struggles, working-class women expanded the vision and reach of antipoverty programs as their activism continued into the 1970s and 1980s. They led a regional welfare rights movement that organized women's health groups, protested the harsh environmental and labor policies of the coal industry, joined union picket lines, started community health clinics, and fought for access to jobs previously closed to women. Wilkerson examines the intersections of gender, race, class, social movements, and public policy in the Appalachian South.
Missing Class by Betsy Leondar-Wright
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780801452567
Publication Date: 2014-03-20
Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. Missing Class looks through a class lens and discovers that members with different class life experiences tend to approach these problems differently. Using this class lens enables readers to envision new solutions, solutions that draw on the strengths of all class cultures to form the basis of stronger cross-class and multiracial movements.
Cutting Class by Joe L. Kincheloe (Editor); Shirley R. Steinberg (Editor)
ISBN: 9780847691173
Publication Date: 2007-07-12
In these vivid, thought-provoking essays, leading scholars draw from their own life experiences to explore the ways in which socio-economic class has shaped their lives and educational practices. Some experienced the sting of poverty as students, while others tell stories of a privileged upbringing and moments of epiphany when they recognized the far-reaching effects of class privilege. Many in this volume tell stories of their successful (and not-so-successful) teaching experiences with students from various social classes, providing valuable insights for teachers and other education professionals.

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Selected Articles

Frugality Is Hard to Afford
Orhun, A. Y., & Palazzolo, M. (2019). Frugality Is Hard to Afford. Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), 56(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022243718821660
Neighborhood Effects on Children’s Subjective Deprivation: Are Poor Children’s Perceptions of the Economic Situation in their Home Influenced by their Neighborhood?
Huyer-May, B., Schmiedeberg, C., & Schumann, N. (2018). Neighborhood effects on Children’s subjective deprivation: Are poor Children’s perceptions of the economic situation in their home influenced by their neighborhood? Child Indicators Research, 11(1), 291-305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-017-9445-z
Political Consequences of Survival Strategies among the Urban Poor
Desmond, M., & Travis, A. (2018). Political Consequences of Survival Strategies among the Urban Poor. American Sociological Review, 83(5), 869–896. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122418792836
Authority, Disciplinary Intimacy & Parenting in Middle-Class America
Lassonde, S. (2017). Authority, disciplinary intimacy & parenting in middle-class America. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14(6), 714–732. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2017.1300577

Lindenwood Scholarships
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Data on United States demographics, economics, regions, poverty, labor, stocks, careers, and more.
The World Factbook
From the CIA. Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Socioeconomic Data and Application Center
Data center from NASA. Maps and data on a wide variety of socioeconomic indicators - income, agriculture, conservation, health, hazards, infrastructure, land use, water, and more.

Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research
"The Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research is a comprehensive institute for the examination of the determinants and consequences of demographic change. It is comprised of three components, including the Texas State Data Center, a state entity, which distributes demographic, economic, and related data and information to private and public sector clients in Texas and other parts of the nation. "
Diversity and Democracy
Magazine sponsored by the American Association of University Professionals.
Council for Opportunity in Education
Information-rich website with news and research related to socioeconomic issues in higher education.
U.S. Department of Education Report on the Educational Opportunity Centers Program 2007-2008
The Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) program is one of the federal TRIO programs, a group of eight outreach programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education that are designed to support and assist students from disadvantaged backgrounds to progress through the academic pipeline from middle school to attainment of a postbaccalaureate degree.
Economic Policy Institute Report on Testing and Student Inequality
Report about socioeconomic factors influencing poor US student performance on international tests.
National Center for Education Statistics Report: Youth Indicators 2005: Trends in the Well Being of American Youth
U.S. Department of Education Report on socioeconomic related to higher education access. For a quick analysis of the report, view: http://www.epi.org/publication/webfeatures_snapshots_20051012/
Federal TRIO Programs
The Federal TRIO Programs (TRIO) are Federal outreach and student services programs designed to identify and provide services for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. TRIO includes eight programs targeted to serve and assist low-income individuals, first-generation college students, and individuals with disabilities to progress through the academic pipeline from middle school to postbaccalaureate programs. TRIO also includes a training program for directors and staff of TRIO projects.