Poverty, Crime Seriousness, and the “Politics of Disgust”

Smith, Laura; Baranowski, Kim A.; Allen, Alizah; Bowen, Rashidah

doi:10.1080/10875549.2013.833160

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“…Other psychological research has helped to further delineate this negative stereotyping; for example, participants in one study (Cozzarelli, Wilkinson, & Tagler, 2001) endorsed traits such as lazy, stupid, dirty, and immoral more often for poor people than for middle-class people. Similarly, survey research suggests that when respondents associate behavioral infractions with poverty, they tend to be particularly disgusted by them (Smith, Baranowski, Allen, & Bowen, 2013). Such behav-iors can be found in areas such as parenting, conduct, and hygiene (Smith, Allen, & Bowen, 2010).…”

Section: Classism and Social Exclusion As Defining Elements Of Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth participatory action research: Agency and unsilence as anti-classist practice.

Smith¹,

Baranowski²,

Abdel-Salam³

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Translational Issues in Psychological Science

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Psychology's traditional medical-model approach to poverty has left the emotional impact of classism relatively unexplored. When classism and social exclusion become the focus, what options for intervention and service exist for applied psychologists? In this article, youth participatory action research (YPAR) is presented as growthful, anticlassist, community-based practice for psychologists. The authors suggest that YPAR collaborations comprise activities by which psychologists and trainees can partner with young people to refute the silencing and social exclusion that are among the defining elements of classism, and they illustrate this contention with a case example of a year-long, school-based YPAR project. What is the significance of this article for the general public?The harmful impact of poverty includes the impact of classist biases, which function to exclude and devalue the experiences of the poor. Youth participatory action research projects offer an opportunity for professionals and young people to work together to identify community needs and allow the voices of young people in poor communities to be heard.

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Section: Classism and Social Exclusion As Defining Elements Of Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth participatory action research: Agency and unsilence as anti-classist practice.

Smith¹,

Baranowski²,

Abdel-Salam³

et al. 2018

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“…Relatedly, deviant behaviors in such areas as parenting, conduct, and hygiene have been attributed to the poor in survey research (L. Smith, Allen, & Bowen, 2010), where it also appeared that an outsize degree of disgust was inspired by the behavioral infractions that respondents associated with poverty (L. Smith, Baranowski, Allen, & Bowen, 2013). Correspondingly, media representations of the poor reflect many of the same biases, with TV portrayals of the poor most often representing them as dysfunctional, ignorant, unruly, and/or promiscuous (Bullock, Wyche, and Williams (2001).…”

Section: Poverty-related Stigma and Distancing From The Poormentioning

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Section: Poverty-related Stigma and Distancing From The Poormentioning

confidence: 99%

Reforming the minimum wage: Toward a psychological perspective.

Smith¹

2015

American Psychologist

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The field of psychology has periodically used its professional and scholarly platform to encourage national policy reform that promotes the public interest. In this article, the movement to raise the federal minimum wage is presented as an issue meriting attention from the psychological profession. Psychological support for minimum wage reform derives from health disparities research that supports the causal linkages between poverty and diminished physical and emotional well-being. Furthermore, psychological scholarship relevant to the social exclusion of low-income people not only suggests additional benefits of financially inclusive policymaking, it also indicates some of the attitudinal barriers that could potentially hinder it. Although the national living wage debate obviously extends beyond psychological parameters, psychologists are well-positioned to evaluate and contribute to it.

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Imagining Ugliness: Failed Femininities, Shame, and Disgust Written Onto the “Other” Body

Fahs

2018

On the Politics of Ugliness

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Poverty, Crime Seriousness, and the “Politics of Disgust”

Cited by 6 publications

References 32 publications

Youth participatory action research: Agency and unsilence as anti-classist practice.

Youth participatory action research: Agency and unsilence as anti-classist practice.

Reforming the minimum wage: Toward a psychological perspective.

Imagining Ugliness: Failed Femininities, Shame, and Disgust Written Onto the “Other” Body

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