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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 ourselvesall are marked by social class, a powerful factor affecting every domain of life. In Facing Social Class , social psychologists Susan Fiske and Hazel Rose Markus, and a team of sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, and legal scholars, examine the many ways we communicate our class position to others and how social class shapes our daily, face-to-face interactionsfrom casual exchanges to interactions at school, work, and home. Facing Social Class exposes the contradiction between the American ideal of equal opportunity and the harsh reality of growing inequality, and it shows how this tension is reflected in cultural ideas and values, institutional practices, everyday social interactions, and psychological tendencies. Contributor Joan Williams examines cultural differences between middle- and working-class people and shows how the cultural gap between social

Who reads Facing Social Class : How Societal Rank Influences Interaction?

Author

Fiske, Susan T.; Markus, Hazel Rose; Markus, Hazel Rose

Publisher

Russell Sage Foundation

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781610447812

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Psychology

Rating

4.09 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14