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Towards a critical social psychology of social class

Katy Day Bridgette Rickett Maxine Woolhouse

pp. 469-489

Abstrakt

Social psychologists have paid relatively little attention to class compared with scholars from other disciplines (e.g., sociology). This is a concern as class shapes nearly every aspect of human life and has a profoundly psychological dimension. This chapter critically reviews mainstream social psychological work on class, highlighting the general failure of this to problematise the class system of countries like Britain and the United States. It then moves on to discuss critical social psychological work on class and what this has offered those seeking to alleviate the problems caused by social and economic inequalities. Finally, the chapter reviews the current "state of play' for critical scholarship in this area, considering future directions for this field of study.

Publication details

Published in:

Gough Brendan (2017) The Palgrave handbook of critical social psychology. New York, Palgrave Macmillan.

Seiten: 469-489

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-51018-1_23

Referenz:

Day Katy, Rickett Bridgette, Woolhouse Maxine (2017) „Towards a critical social psychology of social class“, In: B. Gough (ed.), The Palgrave handbook of critical social psychology, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 469–489.