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Feb 1, 2015 · That said, these researchers see class on a continuum, rather than as a fixed distinction among upper, middle and lower class. In their view, the higher in socioeconomic status you are, the more independently oriented you are likely to be, while the lower in status you are, the more group-minded you are likely to be, for example.
Jan 22, 2019 · The authors explain that individuals from working-class contexts tend to have an interdependent model of self, as working together and addressing the needs of others helps mitigate the effects of having fewer financial resources, more environmental constraints, lower power and status, and fewer opportunities for control and choice.
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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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 ...
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 ...
May 26, 2022 · Social class can affect how we perceive our own abilities. Compared to people from a relatively low social class, those of a higher social class tend to have a more favourable view of themselves, for instance, showing higher self-esteem and a greater degree of narcissism. And, crucially, a 2019 study suggests that this comes down to over ...
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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.
