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ERIC Number: EJ690596
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jul
Pages: 7
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From Whence We Came: The Role of Social Class in Our Families of Origin
Heppner, Mary J.; Scott, Anne B.
Counseling Psychologist, v32 n4 p596-602 Jul 2004
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 hypothesize about why this maybe the case. They also argue for the importance of 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.
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Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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