- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Dedication
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Critical Principles and Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century
- Social Justice Theory and Practice: Fostering Inclusion in Exclusionary Contexts
- Reconsidering Citizenship Models and the Case for Cultural Citizenship: Implications for a Social Psychology of Social Justice
- Narrative Approaches within a Social Psychology of Social Justice: The Potential Utility of Narrative Evidence
- Extending the Social Psychology of Racism: A Framework for Critical Analysis
- The Ongoing Psychological Colonization of North American Indigenous People: Using Social Psychological Theories to Promote Social Justice
- Disjunctive: Social Injustice, Black Identity, and the Normality of Black People
- Culture, Psychology, and Social Justice: Toward a More Critical Psychology of Asians and Asian Americans
- Intersectional Understandings of Inequality
- “Who is Tossing Whom into the Current”?: A Social Justice Perspective on Gender and Well-Being
- Transnational Feminism in Psychology: Women’s Human Rights, Liberation, and Social Justice
- Benevolent Heterosexism and the “Less-than-Queer” Citizen Subject
- Of “Takers” and “Makers”: A Social Psychological Analysis of Class and Classism
- Social Class Oppression as Social Exclusion: A Relational Perspective
- Colonization, Decolonization, and Power: Ruptures and Critical Junctures Out of Dominance
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Citizenship and Migrant Identity in the Post 9/11 Era
- Social Justice in Multicultural Europe: A Social Psychological Perspective
- Positioning Theory and Social Justice
- “In the Minds of Men . . .”: Social Representations of War and Military Intervention
- Intergroup Contact in Settings of Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflict
- Intergroup Contact and the Struggle for Social Justice
- Intergroup Dialogue: Education for Social Justice
- Setting the Record “Straight”: Communicating Findings from Social Science Research on Sexual Orientation to the Courts
- Bear Left: The Critical Psychology Project in Revolting Times
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Dilemmas, Dynamics, and Destinies
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
During the 2012 United States presidential campaign, the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates drew a stark line between “takers” and “makers,” claiming that too many Americans are “takers” because they receive more from the government and society than they contribute. In this chapter, we employ a critical social psychological framework to understand and deconstruct the political discourse surrounding “makers” versus “takers” and to illuminate the social psychology of social class and classism. This chapter focuses on attitudes and beliefs about social class that legitimize economic inequality and class disparities and the relationship of these beliefs to interclass relations and social and economic policy. In doing so, this chapter identifies the important role of social psychological research and justice-oriented frameworks in alleviating class-based disparities and classism.
Keywords: classism, discrimination, social class, economic inequality, poverty, welfare policy
Heather E. Bullock Department of Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Harmony A. Reppond Department of Psychology University of Michigan—Dearborn Dearborn, MI, USA
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Dedication
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Critical Principles and Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century
- Social Justice Theory and Practice: Fostering Inclusion in Exclusionary Contexts
- Reconsidering Citizenship Models and the Case for Cultural Citizenship: Implications for a Social Psychology of Social Justice
- Narrative Approaches within a Social Psychology of Social Justice: The Potential Utility of Narrative Evidence
- Extending the Social Psychology of Racism: A Framework for Critical Analysis
- The Ongoing Psychological Colonization of North American Indigenous People: Using Social Psychological Theories to Promote Social Justice
- Disjunctive: Social Injustice, Black Identity, and the Normality of Black People
- Culture, Psychology, and Social Justice: Toward a More Critical Psychology of Asians and Asian Americans
- Intersectional Understandings of Inequality
- “Who is Tossing Whom into the Current”?: A Social Justice Perspective on Gender and Well-Being
- Transnational Feminism in Psychology: Women’s Human Rights, Liberation, and Social Justice
- Benevolent Heterosexism and the “Less-than-Queer” Citizen Subject
- Of “Takers” and “Makers”: A Social Psychological Analysis of Class and Classism
- Social Class Oppression as Social Exclusion: A Relational Perspective
- Colonization, Decolonization, and Power: Ruptures and Critical Junctures Out of Dominance
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Citizenship and Migrant Identity in the Post 9/11 Era
- Social Justice in Multicultural Europe: A Social Psychological Perspective
- Positioning Theory and Social Justice
- “In the Minds of Men . . .”: Social Representations of War and Military Intervention
- Intergroup Contact in Settings of Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflict
- Intergroup Contact and the Struggle for Social Justice
- Intergroup Dialogue: Education for Social Justice
- Setting the Record “Straight”: Communicating Findings from Social Science Research on Sexual Orientation to the Courts
- Bear Left: The Critical Psychology Project in Revolting Times
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Dilemmas, Dynamics, and Destinies
- Index
