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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 246-250Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0963721411414654
Keywords
social class; culture; rank; social hierarchy; inequality
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Social class reflects more than the material conditions of people's lives. 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-a-vis others. Empirical studies find that perceptions of social-class rank influence patterns of contextual versus dispositional cognition and other-versus self-oriented affect and behavior that are consistent with objective resource-based measures of social class. Our theoretical conceptualization emphasizes the utility of measuring and manipulating perceptions of social-class rank to better understand how social class influences thought and action across diverse social domains.
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