Jessi Streib > Quotes

“A four-year college degree and professional job define membership in this social class, and only about one in five white American children have at least one parent with these statuses.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“Arts and sports jobs are in what scholars call a “winner-takes-all” labor market—one in which the best of the best earn sky-high salaries and enjoy job security while the remainder receive little at all.9”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“most college-educated men who married in the 2000s married college-educated women.36”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“The stay-at-home mother/breadwinning father model is based on the idea that the parent with less workforce experience—and, sometimes, less education, too—spends more time with their children than the parent whose job and education provides them with more academic skills and institutional knowledge. The resources that the family holds then are not passed down to the child, as the parent whose resources are typical of the upper-middle-class does not spend substantial time with the child, while the parent with resources more typical of the working-class does more to raise the child.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“Rebels were also unlikely to find professional work as they had false ideas about obtaining it. They tended to believe that jobs and opportunities should come to them, rather than that they would need to look for work.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“The daughter of a financial manager and a stay-at-home mom, her father’s income allowed her to grow up in a large house in a coastal suburb and his hands-on parenting style and graduate school education gave her a live-in tutor and academic coach.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“Starting in the 1920s, elite universities began admitting students based on their artistic and athletic talents. These criteria initially provided colleges with mechanisms to discriminate against Jews, whose academic performance qualified them for admission.16 However, after adding artistic and athletic talents to the admissions criteria, they took on a life of their own.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall