See how U.S. middle-class income and costs have changed from 1990 to 2025, and why staying middle class is harder than ever.

The concept of being middle class in America has shifted dramatically. What used to guarantee a comfortable lifestyle now barely covers basic expenses in many areas. With rising costs, changing ...

You could call it class warfare, except the warfare is on the very idea of class. For generations now, various prominent scholars have decided we’d be better off abolishing it. Back in 1939, the ...

Primary immunodeficiency disorders (PIDs) are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized, as the name suggests, by deficiencies (abnormal, poor or absent function) in the immune system. As ...

International Journal of Sociology of the Family, Vol. 11, No. 2 (July-December 1981), pp. 347-366 (20 pages) This paper focuses on the meaning and usage of status and kinship terms in different ...

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