Trust is the social glue that holds society together. The academic consensus trust weaker among lower-class individuals and in unequal regions/countries, which often considered a threat to healthy society. However, existing studies are inconsistent have two limitations: (i) variability measurement of class (ii) small numbers higher level units (regions/countries). We addressed these problems us...

BACKGROUND To examine the combined effects of education level and perceived social class on self-rated health and life satisfaction in South Korea. METHODS We used data drawn from the 8 to 15th wave of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS). Using wave 8 at baseline, data included 11,175 individuals. We performed a longitudinal analysis at baseline estimating the prevalence of self-r...

Although racial stereotyping and prejudice research have received considerable attention, the important element of social class has been largely excluded from social psychological research. Using the Statement Recognition Procedure, two experiments investigated social categorization along race and social class dimensions, the influence of racial and social class prejudice on these categorizatio...

the present study investigates the relationship between people’s social class and their attitudes toward modernism. this paper is based on a survey research which carried out among a sample of 249 of the 15-year old citizens of yazd. based on the definitions given for modernism, in general, most theorists considered 8 components as the main components of modernism. the findings of the study sho...