Betsy Leondar-Wright, “Missing Class” (Cornell UP, 2014)

New Books in Sociology · Apr 23, 2014 · 52m

Gender and race are visible markers of identity, regularly talked about both in the news and sociology circles. There is another marker, however, that is just as important and predictive, but much less visible – social class. In Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups (Cornell University Press, 2014), Betsy Leondar-Wright attempts to bring class to the forefront of the conversation by describing how belonging to a particular social class can affect interaction within social movement groups. She classifies a number of “class cultures” based primarily on…