Sections include: Understanding class: attitudes, beliefs, and attributions; Transitions and traditions: class mobility and maintenance through education; and Transforming practice and policy in public schools and in psychology; some focus on the US; 9 articles. Contents: Scaling the socioeconomic ladder: low-income women's perceptions of class status and opportunity, by Heather E. Bullock, Wendy M. Limbert; Social class and adolescents' beliefs about justice in different social order, by Constance A. Flanagan, Bernadette Campbell; Essentialism, culture, and power: representations of social class, by Ramaswami Mahalingam; Boys of class, boys of color: negotiating the academic and social geography of an elite independent school, by Peter Kuriloff, Michael C. Reichert; Belonging and wanting: meanings of social class background for women's constructions of their college experiences, by Joan M. Ostrove; Race, class and the dilemmas of upward mobility for African Americans, by Elizabeth R. Cole, Safiya R. Omari; Complex subjectivities: class, ethnicity, and race in women's narratives of upward mobility, by Sandra J. Jones; Social class in public schools, by Jennifer L. Hochschild; Class notes: toward a critical psychology of class and schooling, by Michelle Fine, April Burns.