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A new wave of research shows how working-class young men are changing their behaviour. But some remain hostile to the term “toxic masculinity” and see it as a vehicle for shaming men.
Throughout US history, racist attacks against racial minorities were committed by white men grappling with their masculinity and social status.
The genre has long been viewed as too exclusive, too expensive and too stuffy. Thanks to video games, that’s starting to change.
The controversial reality show is only part of the picture when it comes to class and education in Indian marriage negotiations.
Climbing the ladder is not a simple process.
Accountancy firm KPMG’s plans for greater social balance should be applauded.
The quest for significance and respect is a universal part of human nature. It has the potential to inspire great works – but lately, it has been much in evidence tearing society apart.
Societies and cultures that seem ossified and entrenched can be completely upended by pandemics, which create openings for conquest, innovation and social change.
We asked almost 1500 Australians about the art they liked and disliked. Then we mapped middlebrow culture. We found plenty to enjoy there.
We’re supposed to suppress feelings of envy. But what if the kind spurred by school shutdowns, frontline work and cramped apartments are worth exploring – and acting upon?
Many of the privileges that middle-class students enjoy are not obvious, even to themselves.
It doesn’t have to be a week of tiresome turkey sandwiches. A food historian explains how the French came to see leftovers as an outlet for creativity and experimentation.
Rural and small-town residents believe they aren’t getting their fair share from the government. A majority of them were Trump supporters in 2016. How will they vote when Trump is gone?
A scholar of literary radicalism asks whether Marx’s writings are at all relevant to the world’s struggles with inequality today and why he’s no longer being relegated to the dustbin of history.
Most child sex abuse happens within families, but we still cling on to the Victorian idea of paedophiles as outsiders.
Social class plays a huge role in people’s experiences of accessing and succeeding in higher education.
The discourse and structure of online learning can exclude English language minority students. Techniques such as video chats, “safe houses” and content-focused grading can support their success.
Even where communities are mixed, many inner-city families go to extraordinary financial and geographic lengths to ensure their children do not go to school with children from ‘the flats’.
The tricky truth is that change goes in both directions.
Top contributors
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Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University & Visiting Research Professor in Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Rhodes University
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Professor emerita of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor, Honorary Principal Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Director of Education, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Method, Cardiff University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Urban Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in English Language & TESOL, University of the West of Scotland
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Associate Researcher, Newcastle University
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M.A. Candidate, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of Education, Simon Fraser University
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Research Fellow, ‘Catalysing Neurohumanities research into Child Sexual Abuse’, Trinity College Dublin
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Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, University of South Florida
