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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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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
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).
Social scientists have studied social class for centuries, but cultural psychologists have only recently joined this undertaking. In this chapter, we define social class and differentiate it from relevant rank-related constructs, as well as review the most recent theoretical and empirical trends in the psychological study of social class. Specifically, we touch on four emerging theoretical ...
- Michael W. Kraus, Paul K. Piff, Dacher Keltner
- 2011
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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Feb 28, 2018 · Stephens et al.’s conceptualization of culture-specific selves that vary as a function of social class is compatible with the ‘subjective social rank’ argument advanced by Kraus, Piff, and Keltner . The latter authors argue that the differences in material resources available to working- and middle-class people create cultural identities that are based on subjective perceptions of social ...
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Oct 13, 2020 · Social class is a rather complex and messy affair (e.g. Argyle, 1994), and how we define and measure social class (indeed, whether or not this actually exists at all in contemporary societies) is the subject of ongoing debate in the social sciences (Bullock & Limbert, 2009). For one, understandings and definitions of social class are not static ...
