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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 institutions like our colleges and universities.
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In some ways, class is a form of culture: people from different class backgrounds grow up in environments with particular norms and values, and this shapes their behaviour and sense of identity. For instance, note Michael W. Kraus and colleagues in their 2019 book chapter Social class as culture, for working class individuals the ‘self’ tends to be...
Our ways of viewing the self and the wider of world are of course influenced by all kinds of other individual differences too, and no social class is a homogenous group of people. Nevertheless, in the past couple of decades studies have shown that these overall class-based differences do manifest in our day-to-day psychological processes and behavi...
There are plenty more examples of how class can influence psychological processes. But there’s an important caveat: the vast majority of this work has been carried out in Western countries, particularly the United States, so the findings may not necessarily apply elsewhere. As Yuri Miyamoto from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues no...
Cultural considerations notwithstanding, why do class-based differences in the way we think and behave matter? For one, they may end up reinforcing existing class-based inequalities. Take the paper on overconfidence, for instance. The researchers found that the (unjustified) sense of confidence displayed by people from a relatively high social clas...
Feb 1, 2015 · Markus and an international team of researchers are now examining how class intersects with other forms of culture, such as nationality. In a 2013 article in Emotion, Jiyoung Park, PhD, Markus and colleagues found that class influences the way people in different countries view and express emotions. Comparing American and Japanese respondents ...
One’s position in the social class hierarchy may impact, for example, health, family life, education, religious affiliation, political participation, and experience with the criminal justice system. Social class in the United States is a controversial issue, with social scientists disagreeing over models, definitions, and even the basic ...
Feb 28, 2018 · Turning to the attitudes to broader social issues held by members of different social classes, there is a long tradition in social science of arguing that working-class people are more prejudiced on a number of issues, especially with respect to ethnic minorities and immigrants (e.g., Lipset, 1959). Indeed, there is no shortage of evidence showing that working-class white people do express ...
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with the culturally-distinct ways of reasoning than lower class individuals. In contrast, other. theorists suggested that control over the means of production and related environmental. affordances promote different cognitive styles among lower vs. higher classes (Kohn &. Schooler, 1983).
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Dec 1, 2017 · Whereas higher-class individuals (indexed by a composite of income and education) donated more in public contexts partly because of higher anticipated pride, lower-class individuals donated more in anonymous, private contexts—indicating that lower-class individuals’ prosocial behavior is more driven by a concern for others’ welfare than reputational concerns.
