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Expert consensus is clear: Power is asymmetrical control over resources, and status is social prestige (2, 3). Inequality is not just about power (resources) but also about status (respect) (4). Their empirical independence appears in several findings: Power per se makes people less just, but status (especially without power) makes people more ...
- Social Class, Health, and Quality of Life
- Differentiating Central Elements Related to Social Class: Power and Status
- Power and Status as Potential Mediators of The Effects of Social Class
- The Present Research
Upper-class individuals tend to live longer, to have a lower prevalence of disease (Kröger et al. 2015), are healthier (Bobak et al. 1998), with better psychological and physical functioning (Adler et al. 2000) and tend to have a healthier adolescence (Quon and McGrath 2014). Moreover, they generally evaluate their lives more positively (Kahneman a...
Although there is strong evidence that upper-class individuals have an improved Quality of Life, less is known about why this is the case. Recent social psychological theories and findings suggest that the effects of social class can be understood by focusing on two central elements related to social class: power and status (Dubois et al. 2015; Mag...
Given that these two central elements related to social class sometimes have similar, but often even opposite consequences, it is important to know which of the two elements drives the effects of social class to better understand this important predictor of Quality of Life. However, work investigating whether power and/or status mediate the effect ...
In this study, we explored the mediating role of power and status for the relationship between social class and four facets of Quality of Life. More precisely, for each facet we tested whether upper-class individuals have a higher Quality of Life, either because they control more resources (i.e., have more power), or because they enjoy higher respe...
- Tobias Wingen, Birte Englich, Víctor Estal-Muñoz, Silvana Mareva, Angelos P. Kassianos
- 2021
Dec 9, 2019 · This model is inspired by the theories of German sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920), who viewed the stratification of society as a result of the combined influences of economic class, social status (the level of a person's prestige or honor relative to others), and group power (what he called "party"). Weber defined "party" as the level of one's ability to get what they want, despite how ...
Jun 14, 2019 · Prior research on this topic has focused primarily on the extent to which social class affects SWB and the factors that moderate that impact. We extend prior work by examining the concerns that account for why social class shapes SWB. In particular, we examine the role of status and power in mediating the impact of one’s social class on one ...
- Siyu Yu, Steven L Blader
- 2020
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.
Oct 1, 2016 · Individual and societal relations mutually reinforce status-competence beliefs. •. Race, class, and gender dynamics further illustrate status. •. Although resilient, status systems can shift, a future research direction. Hierarchies in the correlated forms of power (resources) and status (prestige) are constants that organize human societies.
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Feb 28, 2018 · The resulting differences in the ways that working-class and middle- and upper-class people think and act serve to reinforce these influences of social class background, making it harder for working-class individuals to benefit from the kinds of educational and employment opportunities that would increase social mobility and thereby improve their material circumstances.
