Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction

Bys: Susan T. Fiske and Hazel Rose Markus

Many Americans, holding fast to the American Dream and the promise of equal opportunity, claim that social class doesn't matter. Yet the ways we talk and dress, our interactions with authority figures, the degree of trust we place in strangers, our religious beliefs, our achievements, our senses of morality and of ourselves--all are marked by social class, a powerful factor affecting every domain of life. In Facing Social Class, social psychologists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871544792
• ISBN13: 9780871544797
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.2"