Jessi Streib | Scholars@Duke

Jessi Streib
Associate Professor of Sociology

Jessi Streib is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University. Her research uncovers mechanisms and builds theories about how social class inequality is experienced, reproduced, and alleviated. She has published two books: The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages and Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall . Her third book, The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Institute 2014

Contact Information

337 Soc/Psych Bldg, Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708
jessi.streib@duke.edu
http://www.jessistreib.com/

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2013
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017 - 2021
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2017
Recognition
In the News
- SEP 21, 2021 Office of Faculty Advancement
  
  Meet the Newly Tenured Faculty of 2021
- MAR 14, 2016 The Hollywood Reporter
  
  Disney, Pixar misrepresent class struggle in children's films, study finds
- MAR 9, 2016 Duke Today
  
  In the Land of Fantasy, Inequality Hurts Nobody
- FEB 22, 2016 New York Magazine
  
  Why kids’ movies have so many happy poor people
- SEP 29, 2015 BBC’s “Thinking Allowed”
  
  Jessi Streib: New research on how society works
- MAR 27, 2015 The Washington Post
  
  Jessi Streib: For richer or poorer -- the challenges of marrying outside your class
- MAR 27, 2015 The Washington Post
  
  The Challenges of Marrying Outside Your Class
- MAR 24, 2015 Vox
  
  Jessi Streib: If you grew up far richer than your spouse, it will likely change your marriage
- MAR 5, 2015 LSE blog
  
  Jessi Streib: If preschools are to level the social class playing field, they must prevent 4-year-old children and their teachers from tilting it
- FEB 27, 2015 New York Magazine
  
  Jessi Streib: What happens when rich people marry poor people
- FEB 13, 2015 WIBQ-Tere Haute
  
  How compatible you are with your partner depends on money
Research
Selected Grants
- Beyond Entering And Remaining: Social Class Inequality In The Transition From College To Work awarded by Spencer Foundation 2014 - 2018
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Streib, Jessi. Privilege Lost Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall. Oxford University Press, USA, 2020.
  - Streib, J. S. The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
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- Academic Articles
  - Manzoni, A., and J. Streib. “Moving Away from One’s Origins: Predictors of Becoming a First-Generation College Graduate and Not Becoming a Continuing-Generation Graduate.” Sociological Quarterly, January 1, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2023.2198583.
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  - Streib, J., J. Rochmes, F. Arriaga, C. Tavares, and E. Weed. “Class and the cultural styles applicants present to gatekeepers.” Poetics 86 (June 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101513.
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  - Streib, J., J. Rochmes, F. Arriaga, C. Tavares, and E. Weed. “Presenting Their Gendered Selves? How Women and Men Describe Who They Are, What They Have Done, and Why They Want the Job in Their Written Applications.” Sex Roles 81, no. 9–10 (November 1, 2019): 610–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-019-1016-y.
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  - Manzoni, A., and J. Streib. “The Equalizing Power of a College Degree for First-Generation College Students: Disparities Across Institutions, Majors, and Achievement Levels.” Research in Higher Education 60, no. 5 (August 15, 2019): 577–605. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-018-9523-1.
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  - Streib, J. “Class, culture, and downward mobility.” Poetics 70 (October 1, 2018): 18–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2018.08.004.
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  - Streib, J., M. Ayala, and C. Wixted. “Benign Inequality: Frames of Poverty and Social Class Inequality in Children’s Movies.” Journal of Poverty 21, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2015.1112870.
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  - Streib, J. “The unbalanced theoretical toolkit: Problems and partial solutions to studying culture and reproduction but not culture and mobility.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 5, no. 1–2 (January 1, 2017): 127–53. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-016-0015-5.
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  - Streib, J. “Explanations of How Love Crosses Class Lines: Cultural Complements and the Case of Cross-Class Marriages.” Sociological Forum 30, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 18–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12143.
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  - Streib, J. “Class origin and college graduates' parenting beliefs.” Sociological Quarterly 54, no. 4 (September 1, 2013): 670–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/tsq.12037.
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  - Streib, J. S. “Class Reproduction by Four Year Olds.” Qualitative Sociology 34, no. 2 (n.d.): 337–52.
  - Streib, J. S. “Class Origin and Heterogeneity in College Graduates’ Parenting Beliefs.” The Sociological Quarterly 54, no. 4 (n.d.): 670–93.
  - Streib, J. S. “Cultural Complements and Accounts of Appreciation Across One Class Line (Accepted).” Sociological Forum, n.d.
  - Streib, J. S. “Marrying Across Class Lines (Accepted).” Contexts, n.d.
  - Streib, Jessi, Jane Rochmes, Felicia Arriaga, Carlos Tavares, and Emi Weed. “Writing in Race: Evidence Against Employers’ Assumptions About Race and Soft Skills.” Social Problems, n.d.
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- Preprints
  - Streib, Jessi, Jane Rochmes, Felicia Arriaga, Carlos Tavares, and Emi Weed. “Countering Cultural Matching? Class and the Cultural Styles Applicants Present to Gatekeepers.” Center for Open Science, November 19, 2020. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4uz6w.
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  - Streib, Jessi. “Class, Culture, and Downward Mobility.” Center for Open Science, September 1, 2018. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ws9gj.
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  - Streib, Jessi. “The unbalanced theoretical toolkit: Problems and partial solutions to studying culture and reproduction but not culture and mobility.” Center for Open Science, March 20, 2017. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/rc9s9.
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Teaching & Mentoring
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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

In the News

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Preprints

Recent Courses