Cardiff University, UK.
University of Sussex, UK.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2020 Apr;32:95-99. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.06.037. Epub 2019 Jul 15.
Despite the increasing attention paid by psychologists to social class, we argue here that insufficient attention has been paid to the ways, in which socio-ecological factors shape both which dimensions of social class are used by individuals to compare themselves with others, and the outcomes of these comparisons. We illustrate our argument by reviewing recent research on the ways in which different facets of socioeconomic status shape social and political attitudes, and on the ways in which inequalities in educational outcomes stem from comparisons made in specific social contexts. We conclude that by studying the psychological impact of social class differences through the lens of a socio-ecological approach, it becomes more evident that this impact varies as a function of both the dimension of social class involved, and local social ecologies.
尽管心理学家越来越关注社会阶层，但我们在这里认为，他们对社会生态因素塑造个体用来与他人比较的社会阶层维度的方式，以及这些比较的结果，关注得还不够。我们通过回顾最近关于社会经济地位的不同方面如何塑造社会和政治态度的研究，以及教育成果不平等如何源于特定社会环境中的比较，来说明我们的观点。我们的结论是，通过社会生态方法的视角来研究社会阶层差异的心理影响，我们可以更清楚地认识到，这种影响因所涉及的社会阶层维度以及当地的社会生态而异。
