270127 The psychology of social class (BS) (SoSe 2013)

The topic of the seminar is the influence of social class in the development of psychological processes. For a long time, social class was a topic neglected by socio psychological research, but in the last few year there has been a new impulse to such a research area. Since then, social class has received a lot of attention for explaining how people face social interactions, the kind of social orientations they use, the different ways of differentiating status, or the bases of ethical behavioral, among others.
The seminar will concentrate on discussing the role of social class socialization on shaping multiple social and psychological processes. The first part of the seminar will concentrate on developing the basic concepts of class, class measurement, status, power, and social hierarchies. The second part will focus on distinguishing four different levels of analysis: individual level (psychological tendencies), interactional level, institutional level and ideological level. The third part of the seminar will include some concrete examples of the influence of social class on every day behavior (language, fashion, parenting, employment, and so on), ethical behavior, interclass encounters (e.g. what happen to a student with working-class background in a university predominantly middle class), ideologies like meritocracy, individualism, American dream and so on.

Requirements for participation, required level

The seminar will be held in English. There are no additional requirements for attending the seminar.
Am Dienstag, 09.04.2013, findet um 12.00 h ct eine gemeinsame Vorbesprechung der vier G.3-Seminare (Vertiefung zur Sozialpsychologie) statt. Diese sind 'The psychology of social class' (H. Carvacho), ‘Stereotype, Vorurteile und Diskriminierung‘ (C.Diehl und M. Schäfer), ‘Unbewusste Prozesse in der sozialen Kognition‘ (N. Dickel) und 'Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion aus psychologischer Sicht' (B. Schiffhauer und R. Grünberg).
Der Raum wird noch bekanntgegeben.
Die Vorbesprechung soll dazu dienen, die Gruppengrößen im Modul G.3 möglichst auszugleichen und sicherzustellen, dass Sie einen Seminarplatz erhalten.
Sollten Sie zum angegebenen Termin verhindert sein, melden Sie sich bitte über das Sekretariat der AE05 (Frau Akkaya-Willis, Tel. 1064436) mit Namen und Matrikelnummer an, und geben Sie dabei an, für welches der Seminare Sie sich vorrangig (Bilden Sie bitte eine Rangreihe) interessieren.

Bibliography

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Fiske, S. T. & Markus, H. R. (2012). Facing social class. How societal rank influences interaction. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Kraus, M. W., Côté, S., & Keltner, D. (2010). Social class, contextualism, and empathic accuracy. Psychological science, 21(11), 1716–23. doi:10.1177/0956797610387613
Kraus, M. W., & Stephens, N. M. (2012). A Road Map for an Emerging Psychology of Social Class. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6(9), 642–656. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2012.00453.x
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Stephens, N. M., Fryberg, S. a., & Markus, H. R. (2011). When Choice Does Not Equal Freedom: A Sociocultural Analysis of Agency in Working-Class American Contexts. Social Psychological and Personality Science 2(1) 33-41. doi:10.1177/1948550610378757

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