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- Individual accounts of social class focus too much on individual choices and overlook the significant impact of social structures on class dynamics.
- Access to influential networks and resources creates inequalities that affect individuals' motivations and expressions of self.
- Understanding social class through the interaction between individual actions and societal structures helps explain social mobility and can inform neuroscience and experimental studies on class disparities.
Article Abstract
Individual agency accounts of social class persist in society and even in psychological science despite clear evidence for the role of social structures. This article argues that social class is defined by the structural dynamics of society. Specifically, access to powerful networks, groups, and institutions, and inequalities in wealth and other economic resources shape proximal social environments that influence how individuals express their internal states and motivations. An account of social class that highlights the means by which structures shape and are shaped by individuals guides our understanding of how people move up or down in the social class hierarchy, and provides a framework for interpreting neuroscience studies, experimental paradigms, and approaches that attempt to intervene on social class disparities.
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