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May 25, 2017 · Broad global trends suggest that economic inequality, at its historic peak according to some metrics (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2014; Piketty & Saez, 2014), is a pressing societal problem impacting the health and well-being of individuals: In roughly 70% of studies examining the health impacts of economic inequality, data indicate that societal health worsens as ...
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Feb 28, 2018 · Interestingly, in their analysis of British Social Attitudes data over a period of 28 years, Clery et al. conclude that ‘there are no clear patterns of change in the views of different social classes, suggesting changing economic circumstances exert an impact on attitudes to poverty across society, not just among those most likely to be affected by them’ (p. 18). Given the changing ...
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This social class typology is informed by several approaches to class analysis within the conflict theoretical framework (e.g., Dahrendorf 1959; Marx 1976, 1978; Wright 1979, 1985, 1997). 2 Marx (1976), for example, held that social class divisions are based on differences in property ownership and that exploitation, defined as the appropriation of workers’ surplus labor by property owners ...
Aug 12, 2016 · Understanding social class as culture is a relatively recent idea, yet the research conducted thus far illustrates the influence class position can have on people’s behavior and identity. The research also sheds light on how these individual-level processes can feed into macro-level phenomena, such as the growing wealth gap, via social ...
Social class stereotypes support inequality through various routes: ambivalent content, early appearance in children, achievement consequences, institutionalization in education, appearance in cross-class social encounters, and prevalence in the most unequal societies. Class-stereotype content is ambivalent, describing lower-SES people both ...
Jun 29, 2018 · Definition. Researchers often define objective social class as one’s position in the society based on their education, occupation, and income level, whereas subjective social class refers to one’s perception of their own position in the society relative to others (Kraus and Stephens 2012). Social class differences are differences that ...
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The pernicious effects of this broad societal trend are striking: Rising inequality is linked to poorer health and well-being across countries, continents, and cultures. The economic and psychological forces that perpetuate inequality continue to be studied, and in this theoretical review, we examine the role of daily experiences of economic ...
