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MSU Professor Provides ‘Social Class for Dummies’

By Guest PostDecember 31, 2012Economyacademic achievement, african americans, college of education, federal poverty level, higher income whites, lower income, matthew diemer, michigan state university, middle class, msu, psychological research, racial achievement gap, scholar, social class, socioeconomic factor, unemployment, unequal society, working class

Matthew Diemer, associate professor in MSU’s College of Education, talks about his paper “Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research.”

Social class has been linked to health, college attainment and other important outcomes, but the best ways to define and measure social class are still unclear to many, a Michigan State University scholar argues. (more…)

‘Thin May Not be in for African-American Women’

By Guest PostJuly 3, 2010Culture, Healthafrican-american women, american psychological association graduate student awa, bmi, body mass index, body shape, college of education, curvy body, department of educational, mu, rashanta bledman, school and counseling psychology, university of missouri, women

COLUMBIA, Mo. —Many women today are dissatisfied with their weight, body shape and size, and often strive to be unrealistically thin.

A University of Missouri graduate student has found that black women actually differ from white women in their perceptions of the ideal body shape and size.

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