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  1. Mar 11, 2024 · Factors that can contribute to workplace social class inequity range from a company’s recruiting practices to informal assumptions, interactions, and networking opportunities throughout the ...

  2. Aug 12, 2016 · The results of this growing body of research on the psychology of social class suggest that, in addition to considering visible markers such as gender and race or ethnicity, so too should social class be incorporated into the larger dialogue about culture and diversity in the United States.

  3. Apr 11, 2022 · Likewise, sociological studies suggest social class is a stratifying agent within society, which has spillover effects within organizations because social class affects individuals’ mobility, the idea of meritocracy, and the ways in which powerful organizational members promote their own interests (e.g., Domhoff, 1997). These perspectives ...

  4. Social class stereotypes depict low-income people as less competent than higher-income individuals, but perhaps warmer. Such stereotypes affect lower-SES children’s as well as adults’ academic achievement. Social class distinctions are institutionalized in education, becoming barriers for low-SES students.

  5. Jan 1, 2011 · This chapter presents the premise that social class is a potent, robust, and distinct predictor of how people think and act in organizations. Drawing on theories of social cognition, I define social class as a dimension of the self that is rooted in objective material resources (via income, education, and occupational prestige) and corresponding subjective perceptions of rank vis-à-vis others.

    • Stéphane Côté
    • 2011
  6. Nov 14, 2024 · In a recent chapter in the Handbook of Social Psychology (Stephens et al., in, press), we reviewed the last 20 years of social psychological research on social class, and also suggested the importance of taking what we referred to as a social-class-in-context perspective. Extending this work, the current article focuses on articulating the key elements of this context-focused approach ...

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  8. Dec 9, 2023 · Emerging evidence suggests that lower social class individuals excel at working in interdependent teams. Dittmann et al. found that lower social class individuals are better at engaging in effective group processes (i.e., information sharing, task-focused behavior, taking conversational turns) and that when work is organized and rewarded interdependently, those socialized in lower social class ...