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From Whence We Came

The Role of Social Class in Our Families of Origin

Anne B. Scott

University of Missouri–Columbia

As Whiston and Keller’s integrative review illuminates, several contextual factors (e.g., particularly sex and race) have begun to receive attention in the past 20 years in the career development literature. Their review also demonstrates that social class and socioeconomic status (SES), as contextual variables, have not. Authors of this reaction hypothesizeaboutwhy this maybe the case. They alsoarguefor the importanceof investigating the entire spectrum of social class—lower, middle, and upper. In addition, recent methodological advances, such as the social class worldview model and instrumentation, which emphasize the potential power of subjective perceptions of class, are also highlighted. The authors urge us to go beyond merely acknowledging our lack of understanding of this potentially critical variable to developing a rigorous research agenda that places social class and SES variables at the core.

The Counseling Psychologist, Vol. 32, No. 4, 596-602 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0011000004265670


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