Scholarly Articles and Non-Fiction

Inclusion of Socioeconomic Status in Psychology Curricula
Bibliography

In This Bibliography

Engagement for Students

Engagement for Students

The bibliography collected includes articles published in scholarly journals, dissertations, academic books, non-fiction books and relevant articles from popular press venues on socioeconomic status (SES). All readings were selected based on relevance, readability, and perceived engagement for students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Readings covered the time period 1965 through the present (2018); however, the classics were limited to first person narratives.

Pedagogical Advantages

Pedagogical Advantages

Narrative psychology has pedagogical advantages, allowing the reader to walk in someone else’s shoes without directly having had the lived experience. The majority of the readings in this bibliography reflect current research and/or writings; hence most readings are from the 90s through the present. This is not an exhaustive bibliography, but it should provide assistance in course planning and reading assignments.

 

APA Resources on SES

  • American Psychological Association. (2000). Resolution on poverty and socioeconomic status. Roeper Review, 25, 103-106.  
  • APA Presidential Task Force on Psychology’s Contribution to End Homelessness (2010). Helping people without homes: The role of psychologists and recommendations to advance research, training, practice and policy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • APA School-to-Work Task Force. (1999). How psychology can contribute to the school-to-work opportunities movement: Report of the school-to-work task force. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • APA Task Force on Socioeconomic Status. (2006). Final report: APA task force on socioeconomic status. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • APA Task Force on Women, Poverty and Public Assistance. (1998). Making welfare to work really work. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 
  • APA Task Force on Urban Psychology. (2005). Toward an urban psychology: Research, action and policy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 
  • Corliss, C. (2006). Treating the poor - psychology's reachable star. (Paper session: 3158). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.  
  • Dittman, M. (2005). APA task force addresses socioeconomic inequalities. Monitor on Psychology®, 36(11), 14. 
  • O’Conner, E.M. (2001). Psychology responds to poverty. Monitor on Psychology, 32(9), 81.

Conceptualizing Socioeconomic Status and Social Class

Conceptualizing Socioeconomic Status and Social Class

Defining and Measuring SES and Social Class 

  • Diemer, M. A., Mistry, R. S., Wadsworth, M. E., López, I., & Reimers, F. (2013). Best practices in conceptualizing and measuring social class in psychological research. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 13(1), 77–113. doi: 10.1111/asap.12001
  • Grusky, D.B. & Szelenyi, S. (Eds.). (2011). The inequality reader: Contemporary and foundational readings in race, class, and gender (2nd ed.). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
  • Haushofer, J. & Fehr, E. (2014). On the psychology of poverty. Science, 344(6186), 862–867. 
  • Hollingshead, A. (1975). The four-factor index of social status. Unpublished manuscript.  
  • Kraus, M.W. & Stephens, N.M. (2012). A road map for an emerging psychology of social class. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6(9), 642-656. 
  • Kraus, M.W., Tan, J.J.X., & Tannenbaum, M.B. (2013). The social ladder: A rank-based perspective on social class. Psychological Inquiry, 24, 81-96. 
  • Krieger, N., Williams, D., & Moss, N. (1997). Measuring social class in public health research: Concepts, methodologies, and guidelines. Annual Review of Public Health, 18, 314-378.  
  • Lareau, A. & Conley, D (Eds.). (2008). Social class: How does it work? New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.  
  • Liu, W. (2001). Expanding our understanding of multiculturalism: Developing a social class worldview model. In D.B. Pope-Davis & H.L.K. Coleman (Eds.), The intersection of race, class and gender in multicultural counseling (pp. 127-170). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  
  • Lister, R. (2004). Poverty. Malden, MA: Polity Press. 
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Conceptualizing Socioeconomic Status and Social Class

SES and Social Class in Professional Psychology

  • Alcántara, C., Li, X., Wang, Y., Canino, G., & Alegría, M. (2016). Treatment moderators and effectiveness of Engagement and Counseling for Latinos intervention on worry reduction in a low-income primary care sample. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. doi:10.1037/ccp0000146.
  • Aponte, H. (1994). Bread and spirit: Therapy with the new poor. New York, NY: Norton.  
  • Aronson, H. (2006). Treating "the poor" - classism or a rigid loyalty to theory. American Psychologist, 61(4), 335-336.  
  • Baluch, S., Pieterse, A., & Bolden, M. (2004). Counseling psychology and social justice: Houston...we have a problem. The Counseling Psychologist, 32(1), 89-98.  
  • Bassuk, L., Buckner, J., & Bassuk, S. (1998). Prevalence of mental health and substance use disorders among homeless and low income housed mothers. American Journal of Psychiatry, 155(11), 1561-1564.  
  • Bornstein, R. (2006). The complex relationship between dependency and domestic violence: Converging psychological factors and social forces. American Psychologist, 61(6), 595-606.   
  • Bullock, H. (2004). Diagnosis of low-income women. In P. Caplan & L. Cosgrove (Eds.), Bias in psychiatric diagnosis (pp. 115-120). Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.  
  • Chronister, K. & McWhirter, E. (2006). An experimental examination of two career interventions for battered women. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 53(2), 151-164.  
  • Constantine, M. (2002). The intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and social class in counseling: Examining selves in cultural contexts. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 30(3), 210-215. 
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Intersectional Identities

Intersectional Identities

Children and Youth

  • Anderson, R.E. (2017). And still WE rise: Parent–child relationships, resilience, and school readiness in low-Income urban black families. Journal of Family Psychology, 32(1), 60-70.
  • Cantillon, B., Chzhen, Y., Handa, S., & Nolan, B. (2017). Children of austerity: Impact of the Great Recession on child poverty in rich countries . New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Chaudry, A. & Wimer, Christopher. (2016). Poverty is not just an indicator: The relationship between income, poverty and chill well-being. Academic Pediatrics, 16 , S23-S29.
  • Coles, R. (1970). Uprooted children: The early life of migrant farm workers . Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • DeLuca, S., Clampet-Lundquist, S. & Edin, K. (2016). Coming of age in the other America . New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
  • Devenish, B. Hooley, M. & Mellor, D. (2017). The pathways between socioeconomic status and adolescent outcomes: A systematic review. American Journal of Community Psychology, 59 (1-2), 219-238.
  • Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2016). Children rectify inequalities for disadvantaged groups. Developmental Psychology, 52 (8), 1318-1329. doi:10.1037/dev0000154.
  • Evans, G. W. and Kim, P. (2013), Childhood poverty, chronic stress, self-regulation, and coping. Child Development Perspectives, 7 , 43–48.
  • Formoso, D., Weber, R.N., & Atkins, M.S. (2010). Gentrification and urban children's well-being: Tipping the scales from problems to promise. American Journal of Community Psychology, 46 (3-4), 395-412.
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Institutional Classism

Institutional Classism

K-12 and Postsecondary Education

  • Adair, V.C. & Dahlberg, S.L. (Eds.) (2003). Reclaiming class: Women, poverty, and the promise of higher education in America . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
  • Armstrong, E.A., Hamilton, L.T., Armstrong, E.M., & Seeley, J.L. (2014). “Good girls:” Gender, social class,and slut discourse on campus. Social Psychology Quarterly, 77 , 100-122.
  • Armstrong, E.A. & Hamilton, L.T. (2015). Paying for the party: How college maintains inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Arnold, D. & Doctoroff, G. (2003). The early education of socioeconomically disadvantaged children.Annual Review of Psychology, 54 , 513-545.
  • Ardoin, S. (2017). College aspirations and access in working-class rural communities: The mixed signals,challenges, and new language first-generation students encounter . Landham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Astin, A.W. & Oseguera, L. (2004). The declining “equality” of American higher education. The Review of Higher Education, 27 , 321-341.
  • Barney-Dews, C. & Leste-Law, C. (1995). This fine place so far from home: Voices of academics from theworking class . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
  • Benner, A.D., Boyle, A.E., & Sadler, S. (2016). Parental involvement and adolescents' educationalsuccess: The roles of prior achievement and socioeconomic status. Journal of Youth Adolescence, 45 (6), 1053-1064.
  • Browman, A.S., Destin, M., Carswell, K.L., & Svoboda, R.C. (2017). Perceptions of socioeconomic mobilityinfluence academic persistence among low socioeconomic status students. Journal of Experiential Social Psychology, 72 , 45-52.
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Policy and Advocacy Issues

Policy and Advocacy Issues

Income Support Policies and Welfare

  • Albelda, R. (2011). Time binds: U.S. antipoverty policies, poverty, and the well-being of single mothers. Feminist Economics, 17 , 189-214.
  • Albelda , R. & Withorn, A. (2001). Reforming welfare, redefining poverty . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Albelda , R. & Withorn, A (Eds.). (2002). Lost ground: Welfare reform, poverty and beyond . Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
  • Béland, D. & Waddan, A. (2012). The politics of policy change: Welfare, Medicare, and Social Security Reform in the United States . Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
  • Bitler, M. & Hoynes, H.W. (2011). Immigrants, welfare reform, and the U.S. safety net (Working Paper No. 17667). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
  • Bullock, H. (2004). From the front lines of welfare reform: An analysis of social worker and welfare recipient attitudes. The Journal of Social Psychology, 144 (6), 571-588.
  • Burnham, L. (2001). Welfare reform, family hardship, and women of color. In R. Albelda & A. Withorn (Eds.), Reforming welfare, redefining poverty (pp. 38 - 48). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Campbell, A.L. (2014). Trapped in America's safety net: One family's struggle . Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Cancian, M. & Danziger, S. (Eds). (2009). Changing poverty, changing policies . New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
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Reference Books

  • Anderson, M.L. & Collins, P.H. (2015). Race, class and gender: An anthology (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth Publishing.
  • Argyle, M. (1994). The psychology of social class. New York, NY: Routledge.  
  • Block, D. (2014). Social class in applied linguistics. New York, NY: Routledge. 
  • Brady, D. & Burton, L.M. (Eds.). (2016). The Oxford handbook of the social science of poverty. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 
  • Castles, F., Liebfried, S., Lewis, J. Obinger, H., & Pierson, C. (Eds.). (2012). The Oxford handbook of the welfare state. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Chancer, L., & Watkins, B. (2006). Gender, race, and class: An overview. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. 
  • Cockerham, W.C., Dingwall, R., & Quah, S. (Eds.). (2014). The Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of health, illness, behavior, and society. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
  • Crane, D.R. & Heaton, T.B. (Eds.). (2007). Handbook of families and poverty. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. 
  • Glasmeier, A.K. (2006). An atlas of poverty in America: One nation, pulling apart, 1960-2003. New York: Routledge.
  • Grusky, D.B. & Hill, J. (Eds.). (2017). Inequality in the 21st century: A reader. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
  • Grusky, D.B. (2014). Social stratification: Class, race and gender in sociological perspective. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 
  • Hammack, P.L., Jr. (Ed.) (2018). The Oxford handbook of social psychology and social justice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • hooks, b. (2000). Where we stand: Class matters. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Iceland, J. (2016). Poverty in America: A handbook (3rd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  • Lawson, R.M. & Lawson, B.A. (2008). Poverty in America: An encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
  • Liu, W.M. (2013). The Oxford handbook of social class in counseling. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • McLeod, J., Lawler, E., & Schwalbe, M. (Eds.) (2014). Handbook of the social psychology of inequality. New York, NY: Springer. 
  • McNamee, S.J. (2018). The meritocracy myth (4th ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Mink, G. & O'Conner, A., Eds. (2004). Poverty in the United States: An encyclopedia of history, politics, and policy. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.
  • Odekon, M. (2015). The SAGE encyclopedia of world poverty. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
  • Rycroft, R.S. (Ed.). (2017). The American middle class: An economic encyclopedia of progress and poverty. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
  • Stephen, H., Vidal de Haymes, M., & Miller, R. (2014) The Routledge handbook on poverty in the United States. New York, Routledge.
  • Weir, R.E. (Ed.). (2007). Class in America: An encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
  • Wright, E. (1997). Class counts: Comparative studies in class analysis. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
 
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Date created: 2018