The Social Ladder: A Rank-Based Perspective on Social Class
By Michael W. Kraus, Jacinth J. X. Tan, Melanie B. Tannenbaum. 2013
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Scholars across the social sciences have studied social class for centuries. In this review, we suggest that social class is a fundamental means by which individuals are ranked on the social ladder of society. A rank-based perspective on social class shines light on several future areas of research: Specifically, understanding how social class ranks individuals vis-à-vis others leads to predictions about how class is signaled in interactions, influences social cognition and health, is shaped by global economic inequality trends, and changes across the life course. Importantly, our theory highlights the potential of experimental manipulations of social class rank for testing the causal role of social class in shaping basic patterns of cognition, emotion, and behavior. Future predictions regarding the channels of social class rank signals, along with how position on the social ladder shapes political attitudes and interacts with cultural values, are considered.
Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Why Income Inequality Is Dissatisfying—Perceptions of Social Status and the Inequality-Satisfaction Link in Europe (2019, background): “This study’s findings support prior reasoning on the relationship of economic inequality, subjective social status and life satisfaction (Kraus et al., 2013); they also complement research on the moderating effects of income inequality on the determinants of subjective wellbeing (Zhao, 2012; Cheung ”