Inequality, Social Context, and Value Divergence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6384736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Maggie Penn (0000-0002-2018-4367, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 153-165 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3816 • E-ISSN: 1468-2508 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/687208 |
| OpenAlex | W2530814074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 26 |
I present a model in which people develop certain skills (or traits) and also assign worth to those skills. The worth a person assigns to different skills are the person’s values. These values can be used to evaluate one’s own skills and the skills of others. I show that when people are incentivized to place more value on skills for which they are comparatively advantaged, those with lower opportunities for success may be led to adopt more extreme values, to perform below their own capabilities, and to perpetually experience cognitive dissonance by developing skills that are inconsistent with their own values. Attempts to induce low-status individuals to invest in certain skills by increasing the marginal productivity of those skills can backfire, leading to increased inequality
Cognition · Cognitive dissonance · Cognitive skill · Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Divergence (linguistics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Pedagogy · People skills · Productivity · Skills management · Social skills · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Cognitive dissonance and social change
Toward a Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model of Social Behavior
Control of Attributions about the Self Through Self-handicapping Strategies
Commodities and capabilities
Tally's Corner
Human Capital
Group Identity and Symbolic Political Behavior
The Role of Family Policy Institutions in Explaining Gender-Role Attitudes
Draining the Swamp”
The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
The Impact of Ingroup vs Outgroup Performance on Personal Values
Academics, Self-Esteem, and Race
Devaluing domains in response to threatening intergroup comparisons
Inequality, Aspirations, and Social Comparisons
Inequality and Indignation
Social Identity, Political Speech, and Electoral Competition
On Welfare and Terror
Constructing Tolerance
Social Identity, Electoral Institutions and the Number of Candidates
Revisting Tally's Corner
A threat in the air
Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions
Poverty, minority economic discrimination, and domestic terrorism
A Model of Social Identity with an Application to Political Economy
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |