Gendered Social Perceptions of “The Poor”: Differences in Individualistic Attributions, Stereotypes, and Attitudes Toward Social Protection Policies

Alcañiz-Colomer, Joaquín; Moya, Miguel; Valor-Segura, Inmaculada

doi:10.1007/s11199-023-01375-9

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“…The finding could also show a backlash effect against men who violate gender norms when failing to fulfill the provider role (Moss-Racusin et al, 2010). This aligns with findings showing stricter prescriptive gender norms for men vs. women (Koenig, 2018) and more negative stereotypes about poor men vs. women (Alcañiz-Colomer et al, 2023). However, the lack of interaction effect for education implies these theories may not hold for all status markers.…”

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The interplay of gender and class in social judgment across different cultural levels of (gender) inequality

Weißflog,

Grigoryan,

Hofmann

2023

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To reduce social injustice, we need to understand the social dimensions behind these issues, like gender, race/ethnicity, or class. Class and its intersections are relatively understudied in social psychology. We examine how class (operationalized as education, income, and occupational status) and gender shape person evaluation across different cultures. We present results from a factorial survey experiment in eight countries (Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Germany, India, Russia, UK, US) with different gender norms and levels of inequality. Women gained more approval for high education and income than men, and men lost more approval for low income and occupational status than women. In countries with conservative gender norms, these differences were stronger – men also lost more approval for low educational status as conservative gender norms increased. General inequality also impacted status- and gender-based evaluations. Our findings show that gender and class interact in shaping interpersonal attitudes, and this relationship differs across cultures. Keywords: Social Class, Intersectionality, Prejudice, Gender Role Attitudes, Economic Inequality

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“…regarding leadership roles or performance, how people perceive, evaluate, and respond to women and men of different class backgrounds remains understudied. One study found poor men being stereotyped more negatively and blamed more for their poverty than poor women (Alcañiz-Colomer et al, 2023).…”

Section: Intersection Of Gender and Classmentioning

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The interplay of gender and class in social judgment across different cultural levels of (gender) inequality

Weißflog,

Grigoryan,

Hofmann

2023

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“…In this line, there is a large literature about the intersectionality between gender and other stereotypes such as ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, which contain unique features that are not the result of adding gender stereotypes to other stereotypes (Ghavami and Peplau, 2013 ). For example, recent research has shown that women and men in poverty are perceived differently (Alcañiz-Colomer et al, 2023 ). More specifically, women are viewed as less personally responsible for being poor than men.…”

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Mapping gender stereotypes: a network analysis approach

2023

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IntroductionStereotypes have traditionally been considered as “mental pictures” of a particular social group. The current research aims to draw the structure of gender stereotypes and metastereotype schemes as complex systems of stereotypical features. Therefore, we analyze gender stereotypes as networks of interconnected characteristics.MethodThrough an online survey (N = 750), participants listed the common female and male features to build the structure of the gender stereotypes. Participants also listed the common features of how members of one gender think they are viewed by people of the other gender to build the structure of gender metastereotypes.ResultsOur results suggest that female stereotypes are characterized by a single community of features consistently associated such as intelligent, strong, and hardworkers. Female metastereotype, however, combines the previous community with another characterized by weak and sensitive. On the contrary, the male stereotype projected by women is characterized by a community of features associated such as intelligent, strong, and hardworker, but male in-group stereotypes and metastereotypes projected by men are a combination of this community with another one characterized by features associated such as strong, chauvinist, and aggressive.DiscussionA network approach to studying stereotypes provided insights into the meaning of certain traits when considered in combination with different traits. (e.g., strong-intelligent vs. strong-aggressive). Thus, focusing on central nodes can be critical to understanding and changing the structure of gender stereotypes.

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Adolescents views of an unequal world: understanding economic inequality and factors for its reduction

Schwartz-Salazar,

Martínez,

Rodríguez-Bailón

2024

PSE

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Economic inequality has a huge impact on well-being, also affecting adolescents, who are the future agents of our societies. Nevertheless, research often overlooks their perspectives on economic inequality, poverty, and their attitudes towards its reduction. The present research evaluates adolescents’ perceived and ideal economic inequality, causal attributions of poverty, support for collective action against economic inequality and meritocratic beliefs (in school or in general). Findings from this cross-sectional study involving Spanish adolescents (N = 942) reveal age-related differences being older teenagers who had higher ideal economic inequality, more general meritocratic beliefs and made more external causal attributions of poverty. Younger teenagers show greater endorsement of belief in school meritocracy. Beliefs in school meritocracy moderate perceived economic inequality, with stronger endorsement correlating with increased economic inequality tolerance and lesser support for collective action as perceived economic inequality rises. External causal attributions of poverty and ideal economic inequality partially mediate the relationship between perceived economic inequality and support for collective action, shaping attitudes towards economic inequality and its reduction. Our research contributes to understanding adolescents’ comprehension of inequality and their motivation to reduce it. By shedding light on the mechanisms underlying adolescent perceptions of economic inequality and their implications for collective action, our findings pave the way for interventions and policies aimed at promoting social justice and well-being among adolescents and the rest of society.

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Gendered Social Perceptions of “The Poor”: Differences in Individualistic Attributions, Stereotypes, and Attitudes Toward Social Protection Policies

Cited by 3 publications

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The interplay of gender and class in social judgment across different cultural levels of (gender) inequality

The interplay of gender and class in social judgment across different cultural levels of (gender) inequality

Mapping gender stereotypes: a network analysis approach

Adolescents views of an unequal world: understanding economic inequality and factors for its reduction

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