Cross-Class Perceptions of Social Class

Gorman, Thomas J.

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“…Finally, the finding that cultural complements are used to explain heterophily by class origin has implications for inequality. Whereas research has found that cultural differences are used to justify exclusion (Bourdieu ; Gorman ; Illouz ; Lamont , ), this study finds that cultural differences can also be used to justify inclusion. If the therapeutic ethos continues to encourage Americans to find a fault in dispositions that stem from their past, then, even in a time when the classes are “coming apart” (Murray ), cultural complements may provide a way for people raised in different classes to justify bringing their resources together.…”

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“…Only two working‐class‐origin respondents had a mother with a bachelor's degree and only one middle‐class‐origin respondent had a mother with no college experience. Of the 30 heterophilous couples in the sample, 15 were composed of the woman marrying “up” and 15 were composed of the man marrying “up.” Although more sophisticated and narrow operationalizations of class origin exist, education and occupation, each broadly defined, are often used in qualitative studies to capture patterns of cross‐class perceptions (Gorman ; Lamont , ).…”

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Explanations of How Love Crosses Class Lines: Cultural Complements and the Case of Cross‐Class Marriages

Streib

2015

Sociological Forum

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Sociologists know little about how actors explain their attraction to a partner who grew up in a different social class or why their accounts are likely. This is problematic as one form of social class heterophily is relatively common-heterophily by class origin. Drawing upon data from interviews with college-educated respondents in heterophilous marriages by class origin (n = 60) as well as interviews with college-educated respondents in homophilous marriages by class origin (n = 20), this article shows that respondents in heterophilous and homophilous marriages say that they appreciate their spouse for different reasons. Whereas actors in homophilous relationships by class origin explain their appreciation for their spouse in terms of cultural similarities, respondents in heterophilous marriages by class origin explain their appreciation of their spouse in terms of "cultural complements"-the obverse of the dispositions they dislike in themselves and attribute to their own upbringing. The article theorizes that accounts of cultural complements are enabled by the social organization of culture by class.

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Explanations of How Love Crosses Class Lines: Cultural Complements and the Case of Cross‐Class Marriages

Streib

2015

Sociological Forum

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“…[1][2][3][4] This observation for cisstilbene has been confirmed by more recent studies and has also been reported for other triplet acceptors that contain flexible π-electron systems. [5][6][7][8] Unusually rapid endothermic energy transfer to acceptors with flexible π-systems has been termed "nonvertical" energy transfer. 2,4 Nonvertical energy transfer is believed to involve the production of an excited-state acceptor having a geometry that is different from that of the relaxed ground-state olefin.…”

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Intramolecular Energy Transfer to trans-Stilbene

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This study examines the photophysics of a series of transition-metal complexes that contain a (diimine)Re I -(CO) 3 (py) chromophore covalently linked to trans-stilbene via a semirigid amide spacer. In this series of complexes moderately exothermic triplet-triplet energy transfer from the 3 dπ* charge-transfer excited state of the diimine-Re chromophore to trans-stilbene is competitive with "normal" radiative and nonradiative decay of the 3 dπ* state. The rate constant for intramolecular energy transfer (k EnT ) was determined as a function of temperature from 190 to 290 K for three complexes in which the driving force (∆E EnT ) varies from ca. -29 to -38 kJ mol -1 . The temperature-dependence data indicate that energy transfer is characterized by a low activation energy (E a e2 kJ mol -1 ) and a low-frequency factor (A ≈10 6 s -1 ). The results are interpreted by a mechanism in which energy transfer from the 3 dπ* state to trans-stilbene occurs at nearly the optimal driving force (i.e., ∆E EnT ≈λ, where λ is the reorganization energy). However, owing to the moderate separation distance between the Re(I) center and trans-stilbene, the exchange coupling matrix element (V TT ) is small, leading to low A values.

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“…Hierbei werden einerseits ihre Einstellungen, Mentalitäten, Geschmacks-und Ausdrucksformen thematisiert, andererseits ihre (damit transportierten) Identifikationen und Selbstzurechnungen zu bestimmten Gruppen (Spellerberg 1996: 57 (Hradil 1987: 161;Rçssel 2009: 24, 305;Spellerberg 1996: 58 (Solga et al 2009: 39) oder wie sie andere Personen(-gruppen) wahrnehmen und kategorisieren (Gorman 2000;Mazur 1993;Pape et al 2008;Rçssel & Pape 2009;Schultheis et al 1996), wird dagegen kaum beachtet. So stellt Hradil (2001b: 431) (Vester et al 2001: 29ff.).…”

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Symbolische Grenzziehungen und subjektorientierte Sozialstrukturanalyse / Symbolic Boundaries and Subjective Approaches to Stratification

Sachweh

2013

Zeitschrift Für Soziologie

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Zusammenfassung: Subjektorientierte Ansätze der Sozialstrukturanalyse wie die Milieu-und Lebensstilforschung beanspruchen, subjektiv bedeutsame Anker der sozialen Identifikation zu erfassen. Der Beitrag argumentiert, dass sie diesen Anspruch nur unvollständig einlçsen und schlägt das Konzept der "symbolischen Grenzziehungen" als ergänzenden Ansatz vor. Anhand von ALLBUS-Daten und qualitativen Interviews werden lebensweltliche Identifikations-und Abgrenzungsprozesse empirisch untersucht und drei Arten symbolischer Grenzziehungen -sozioçkonomische, kulturelle und moralische -in der deutschen Sozialstruktur nachgezeichnet. Während sich hçhere Schichten anhand ihrer sozioçkono-mischen Lage und ihrer kulturellen Praktiken definieren, verweisen niedrigere Schichten auf solidarische Moralvorstellungen. Diese Selbstdefinitionen dienen zugleich der Abgrenzung, indem anderen die sich selbst zugeschriebenen Eigenschaften abgesprochen werden. Die Ergebnisse illustrieren die Mehrdimensionalität und Schichtspezifik sozialer Identifikationsprozesse und lassen sich mit sozialpsychologischen Theorien sozialer Identität erklären.Schlagworte: Identität; Lebensstil; Milieu; Mixed-Methods; Schicht; Sozialstruktur; Symbolische Grenzziehungen; ALLBUS.Summary: Research on lifestyles and social milieus aims at identifying the markers of social identity which actors themselves deem relevant. This contribution argues that it does so only incompletely and proposes the concept of "symbolic boundaries" as an additional approach. Studying processes of social identification and demarcation with survey data and qualitative interviews, three kinds of symbolic boundaries -socioeconomic, cultural, and moral -emerge within German social structure. While higher social classes identify themselves on the basis of their economic and cultural resources, lower social classes stress solidaristic moral values. These self-definitions are also used to differentiate between groups, where one group denies others the positive attributes it ascribes to itself. Processes of social identifications are thus multi-dimensional and class-specific and can be explained by social psychological theories.

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Cross-Class Perceptions of Social Class

Cited by 29 publications

References 7 publications

Explanations of How Love Crosses Class Lines: Cultural Complements and the Case of Cross‐Class Marriages

Explanations of How Love Crosses Class Lines: Cultural Complements and the Case of Cross‐Class Marriages

Intramolecular Energy Transfer to trans-Stilbene

Symbolische Grenzziehungen und subjektorientierte Sozialstrukturanalyse / Symbolic Boundaries and Subjective Approaches to Stratification

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