Books by Jessi (Assistant Professor of Sociology Streib

Some children are lucky to be born into the top of the class structure, but that does not mean they'll stay there. In Privilege Lost, Jessi Streib traces the lives of over 100 youth born into the upper-middle-class to reveal who is downwardly mobile, how they fall, and why they rarely see it coming.

Drawing upon interviews with adults married to a partner of a different class background, The Power of the Past reveals the intimate connections between love and class and how enduring class attributes shape who they love and how their marriage unfolds.