About the Book:

Social Classes and Social Intelligence guides readers to become more aware of the power and complexities of social classes and social influences in their everyday lives.  Our social intelligence, the sum total of this understanding, shows us how our social classes are related to our families, beliefs, cultures, and societies, as well as how we can change our social classes and ourselves.

Increasing our social intelligence brings more meanings and purposes into our lives, and makes us critical about our social class loyalties.  As we become more socially intelligent, we are freer and more independent from our social classes, as well as more effective in contributing to the common good.  We gain the courage needed to let go of our most contradictory or most unproductive social class identities, choose more authentic social classes, and work with others to build alternatives to social classes.

Becoming more objective about our social classes through increasing our social intelligence makes us stronger and healthier.  Furthermore, because social intelligence is learned, we can pass on this valuable know-how to others, especially to members of the next generations. 

About the Author:

 C. Margaret Hall is Professor of Sociology in the Sociology Department, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.  In addition to research and teaching, she has practiced clinical sociology in a variety of settings.

Hall was born and raised in the north of England.  She married a U.S. citizen, and after living in London, Paris, Brussels, and New York moved to Washington, D.C.  She and her husband have three married daughters and seven grandchildren.