Signs of Social Class The Experience of Economic Inequality in Everyday Life

By some accounts, global economic inequality is at its highest point on record. The pernicious effects of this broad societal trend are striking: Rising inequality is linked to poorer health and well-being across countries, continents, and cultures. The economic and psychological forces that perpetu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Perspectives on psychological science Jg. 12; H. 3; S. 422 - 435
Hauptverfasser: Kraus, Michael W., Park, Jun Won, Tan, Jacinth J. X.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Los Angeles, CA Sage Publications, Inc 01.05.2017
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Schlagworte:
Boundaries
Classroom communication
Communication
Computer mediated communication
Economic inequality
Economic status
Elicitation
Everyday life
Globalization
Health disparities
Health problems
Health Status Disparities
Humans
Inequality
Interpersonal communication
Mental health
Photography
Quality of Life - psychology
Signaling
Social Class
Social classes
Social Cognition
Social comparison
Social inequality
Social perception
Socioeconomic Factors
Speech
Well being
person perception
intergroup relations
economic inequality
socioeconomic status
social class
ISSN:1745-6916, 1745-6924, 1745-6924
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Zusammenfassung:By some accounts, global economic inequality is at its highest point on record. The pernicious effects of this broad societal trend are striking: Rising inequality is linked to poorer health and well-being across countries, continents, and cultures. The economic and psychological forces that perpetuate inequality continue to be studied, and in this theoretical review, we examine the role of daily experiences of economic inequality—the communication of social class signals between interaction partners—in this process. We theorize that social class signals activate social comparison processes that strengthen group boundaries between the haves and have nots in society. In particular, we argue that class signals are a frequent, rapid, and accurate component of person perception, and we provide new data and analyses demonstrating the accuracy of class signaling in 60-s interactions, Facebook photographs, and isolated recordings of brief speech. We suggest that barriers to the reduction of economic inequality in society arise directly from this class signaling process through the augmentation of class boundaries and the elicitation of beliefs and behaviors that favor the economic status quo.
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ISSN:1745-6916
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DOI:10.1177/1745691616673192