The Social Psychology of Inequality

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jetten, Jolanda (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Peters, Kim (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Personality.; Social psychology.; Industrial psychology.; Economics-Psychological aspects.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Industrial and Organizational Psychology.; Economic Psychology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

Economic inequality has been of considerable interest to academics, citizens, and politicians worldwide for the past decade-and while economic inequality has attracted a considerable amount of research attention, it is only more recently that researchers have considered that economic inequality may...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Putting a social psychological spotlight on economic inequality
• Section 1: Inequality in organizational contexts
• 2. Fat cats and thin followers: Excessive CEO pay may reduce ability to lead
• 3. Gender inequality in economic resources
• 4. Societal income inequality and coping with work-related economic stressors: A resource perspective
• 5. A rising tide lifts few boats but leaves behind many others: The harms of inequality-induced status seeking and the remedial effects of employee ownership
• Section 2: Inequality in educational contexts
• 6. Social class differences in social integration at university: Implications for academic outcomes and mental health
• 7. Educational Inequalities: The social and cultural factors and social identity processes that underpin educational inequalities between social classes
• 8. The paradoxical role of meritocratic selection in the perpetuation of social inequalities at school
• 9. Education and social class: Highlighting how the educational system perpetuates social inequality
• Section 3: Consequences of inequality on preferences and behaviours
• 10. The psychological consequences of inequality for food intake
• 11. Income inequality and women's competition: Implications for consumption, status-seeking and self-sexualization
• 12. Developmental perspectives on economic inequality
• 13. Inequality and risk-taking behaviours
• 14. Inequality from the bottom up: Psychological consequences of being poor in a rich country
• Section 4: Why does inequality have these negative outcomes?
• 15. Income inequality and social status: The social rank and material rank hypotheses
• 16. Identifying the psychological mechanism(s) underlying the effects of inequality on society: The Macro-micro model of Inequality and RElative Deprivation (MIRED)
• 17. Social inequality and status stress
• 18. Do people want more wealth and status in unequal societies?
• 19. Inequality and class consciousness
• Section 5: Why and how is inequality maintained?
• 20. The language of inequality
• 21. Mutual status stereotypes maintain inequality
• 22. Everything in its right place: Tradition, order, and the legitimation of longstanding inequality
• 23. Understanding the nature and consequences of social mobility beliefs
• 24. Social sampling, perceptions of wealth distribution and support for redistribution.