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  1. 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.

  2. Cultural similarities and differences are also expected for health implications of social class. To the extent that the negative health consequences of lower social standing are produced by adverse material/structural conditions and deprivation of resources, social class is likely to be linked to health across cultures.

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  3. 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).

  4. Aug 8, 2011 · Objective resources (e.g., income) shape cultural practices and behaviors that signal social class. These signals create cultural identities among upper- and lower-class individuals—identities that are rooted in subjective perceptions of social-class rank vis-à-vis others.

    • Michael W. Kraus, Paul K. Piff, Dacher Keltner
    • 2011
  5. Dec 1, 2017 · However, social class is always located in a particular sociocultural context [10, 11, 12] that provides certain meaning and expectations to people who belong to different classes [6••, 12, 13, 14]. Taking a cultural psychological approach to social stratification, this review illustrates how cultural contexts, specifically those of Western ...

    • Yuri Miyamoto
    • 2017
  6. Dec 9, 2019 · In such a case, social class refers to the socio-cultural aspects of one's life, namely the traits, behaviors, knowledge, and lifestyle that one is socialized into by one's family. This is why class descriptors like "lower," "working," "upper," or "high" can have social as well as economic implications for how we understand the person described.

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  8. jective versus objective social class for self-reported health across different cultural groups. Whereas sub-jective social class rank is related to self-reported health above and beyond objective social class mea-sures (e.g., income, education) among European and Chinese Americans, only income is a significant corre-

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