Authors
Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón, Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez, Efraín García-Sánchez, Katerina Petkanopoulou, Guillermo B Willis
Publication date
2020/6/1
Source
Current opinion in psychology
Volume
33
Pages
120-125
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Effects of social power and social class can be mechanical or contextual.
- Mechanical effects occur when inequality strengthens the relation between power/social class disparities and an outcome.
- Contextual effects occur when inequality creates a context altering the relationship between disparities and an outcome.
- Examples of these two different effects, specially the contextual ones, are given.
- We focus on status anxiety, social norms and mobility, and cohesion and social distance.
Social class and power inequalities are defining features of current societies and tend to influence several social psychological processes. Two types of consequences of social class and power inequalities can be differentiated: mechanical and contextual. Mechanical effects occur when inequality strengthens the relation between social class or power and a given outcome; conversely, contextual effects occur when inequality …
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