Education and Social Class: Highlighting How the Educational System Perpetuates Social Inequality

Croizet, Jean-Claude; Autin, Frédérique; Goudeau, Sébastien; Marot, Medhi; Millet, Mathias

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-28856-3_9

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“…Croizet et al. (2019) observed preschool and elementary school classrooms and found that everyday practices in preschools and elementary schools are filled with activities that disproportionately benefit higher social class children. For instance, a show‐and‐tell encourages students from the higher class to show off their precious possessions and interesting experiences.…”

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“…Whereas Croizet's work focuses on early education (Croizet et al., 2019), Nicole Stephens and colleagues' work focuses on systematic biases in higher education (Stephens et al., 2014, 2019). The “show‐and‐tell” and “raise hand” practices that started the earliest stage of education continue and dominate college education.…”

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Cultural psychology of inequality: Current and future directions

Oishi

Bak

Caluori

2022

Asian J of Social Psycho

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The current special issue reports seven empirical articles on diverse areas of inequality, ranging from the perception of economic inequality (who are concerned, what cues people use to perceive inequality in everyday life), the educational origin of income inequality, to the role of inequality in luxury consumption, prosocial behaviour, life satisfaction, and beliefs in upward and downward economic mobility. We first comment on these articles, then briefly review the current state of the psychology of inequality and point to future directions. Finally, we point out that a cultural psychological perspective is missing from the extant literature on the psychology of inequality. Namely, it is important to document how current systems of inequality are maintained and transmitted across generations in specific sociocultural contexts.

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Section: The Psychology Of Inequality: Current and Future Directionsmentioning

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Section: The Psychology Of Inequality: Current and Future Directionsmentioning

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Cultural psychology of inequality: Current and future directions

Oishi

Bak

Caluori

2022

Asian J of Social Psycho

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“…Out of all the OECD countries, only Hungary has a more broken social elevator with seven generations to reach a mean income level. Likewise, out of all OECD countries, France stands out as the country where academic achievement is most dependent on students' social class (see Croizet et al, 2019).…”

Section: Economic Inequality In Francementioning

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How Economic Inequality Fuels the Rise and Persistence of the Yellow Vest Movement

Jetten

Mols

Selvanathan

2020

International Review of Social Psychology

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Our analysis explores the rise of the Yellow Vest movement as a collective response to perceptions of growing levels of economic inequality in France whereby collective action is triggered by the perceived illegitimacy of the growing gap between the 'haves' and 'have-nots'. We highlight different psychological processes that might explain why concerns about economic inequality have become more salient. We focus on two dynamics in particular: (a) President Macron's perceived alignment with the elites and disconnection from ordinary French people, and (b) historically dominant collective narratives that frame growing inequality as breaking with long-standing values and norms of equality. Both processes enhance 'us' (the victims) versus 'them' (the elite and those that are not true to national values of equality) categorizations along wealth lines whereby, 'us' becomes a broad category. To explain why the movement continues to go strong, we focus on ongoing intergroup processes (i.e., the police response, lack of support from intellectuals and the middle class) and intragroup processes (i.e., the movement brings together all those who self-categorise as victims of inequality, uniting those that may at other times be seen as 'strange bedfellows'). We conclude that a proper understanding of the way in which economic inequality might divide society creating new intergroup dynamics is essential to understand the Yellow Vest movement.

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“…Studies have repeatedly indicated that objective factors, such as lower education, are related to greater CB endorsement (Davis et al, 2018;Douglas et al, 2016;Garrett & Weeks, 2017;Goertzel, 1994;Green & Douglas, 2018;Herek & Capitanio, 1994;Mancosu et al, 2017;Oliver & Wood, 2014a;Radnitz & Underwood, 2015;Stempel et al, 2007;Swami, Furnham et al, 2016;Uscinski & Parent, 2014;Van Prooijen, 2017;. Therefore, it is likely that precarity could exert a remote influence on CB through decreased access to the economic and educational resources required to succeed academically (Croizet et al, 2019;Goudeau et al, 2017).…”

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Of Precarity and Conspiracy: Introducing A Socio-Functional Model of Conspiracy Beliefs

Chayinska¹,

Paladino²,

Uluğ³

et al. 2021

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Conspiracy Beliefs (CB) are a key vector of violent extremism, radicalism and unconventional political events (e.g. Brexit). So far, social-psychological research has extensively documented how cognitive, emotional and intergroup factors can promote CB. Evidence also suggests that adherence to CB moves along social class lines: low-income and low-education are among the most robust predictors of CB (Uscinski, 2020; van Prooijen, 2017). Yet, the potential role of precarity – the subjective experience of permanent insecurity stemming from objective material strain – in shaping CB remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we propose for the first time a socio-functional model of CB. We test the hypothesis that precarity could foster increased CB because it undermines trust in government and the broader political “elites”. Data from the World Value Survey (n = 21,650; Study 1, electoral CB) and from representative samples from polls conducted in France (n = 1760, Study 2a, conspiracy mentality) and Italy (n = 2196, Study 2b, COVID-19 CB), corroborate a mediation model whereby precarity is directly and indirectly associated with lower trust in authorities and higher CB. In addition, these links are robust to adjustment on income, self-reported SES and education. Considering precarity allows for a truly social psychological understanding of CB as the by-product of structural issues (e.g. growing inequalities). Results from our socio-functional model suggest that implementing solutions at the socio-economic level could prove efficient in fighting CB.

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Education and Social Class: Highlighting How the Educational System Perpetuates Social Inequality

Cited by 17 publications

References 34 publications

Cultural psychology of inequality: Current and future directions

Cultural psychology of inequality: Current and future directions

How Economic Inequality Fuels the Rise and Persistence of the Yellow Vest Movement

Of Precarity and Conspiracy: Introducing A Socio-Functional Model of Conspiracy Beliefs

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