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With ever-rising levels of global inequality, much attention has been devoted to understanding why some people are poor and others are rich. Prior studies have mostly focussed on how political ideology and attributions of poverty interact to shape support for policies (e.g., cash assistance for low-income family, unemployment benefits, etc.) that benefit poor people. However, there has been relatively little research on the attributions of wealth and how attitudes and beliefs about the economic world (e.g., rich people, CEOs, corporations, and business owners) shape people’s behaviours and policy preferences. What are the complementary and non-complementary prejudices and stereotypes about the economic world? Do children think about social class? Do rich people deserve to be rich and how rich should they be allowed to be? Do people have sympathy for the rich or are people mostly envious of them? Are rich people and corporations valuable to society or do they just take advantage of people? What are the unethical behaviours of rich and poor people? In the current seminar, we will take a deep dive into the developmental origins of social class and examine how attitudes towards the economic world and political ideology interact to shape policy preferences (e.g., tax cuts for the rich, favourable tax rates for businesses, deregulation of corporations) that benefit the rich people and corporations.
Seminar starts on 15.04. |
