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Social Class as Culture: The Convergence of Resources and Rank in the Social Realm
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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-à-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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“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 rank in relation to others.”
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“These perceptions are based on distinctive patterns of observable behaviour arising from differences in wealth, education, and occupation.”
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“subjective social rank ‘exerts broad influences on thought, emotion, and social behavior independently of the substance of objective social class’”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kraus, M. W., Piff, P. K., & Keltner, D.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Venue
- Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-08
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 246-250
- ISSN
- 0963-7214 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8721
- OpenAlex
- W2135699994
- Cited by
- 398
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 35 · 2017: 32 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 57.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Directions in Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Cultural Capital and Social Class
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Keywords
- social class, cultural identity, cultural practices
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