scholarly journals Societal Inequality, Corruption and Relation-Based Inequality in Organizations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hudson ◽  
Helena V. González-Gómez ◽  
Cyrlene Claasen
Keyword(s):  
Societal Inequality

Foundations of Societal Inequality

Science ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 326 (5953) ◽  
pp. 678-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Acemoglu ◽  
J. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Societal Inequality

When solidarity hurts: (Intra)cultural trust, cultural betrayal sexual trauma, and PTSD in culturally diverse minoritized youth transitioning to adulthood

2021 ◽  
pp. 136346152110629
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Trauma ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Trauma Outcomes ◽  
Trauma Research ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
Societal Inequality

Sexual trauma is associated with PTSD, with perpetrators putting women and girls more at risk than men and boys. Young adulthood is a time where risk of victimization and susceptibility to mental health problems increase. Certain contributors of costly trauma outcomes may be affected by the larger context of societal inequality. Cultural betrayal trauma theory (CBTT) highlights cultural betrayal in within-group trauma in minoritized populations as a dimension of harm that affects outcomes. In CBTT, within-group trauma violates the (intra)cultural trust—solidarity, love, loyalty, connection, responsibility—that is developed between group members to buffer against societal inequality. This violation, termed a cultural betrayal, can contribute to poorer mental health. The purpose of the current study is to address a gap in the CBTT literature by examining the role of (intra)cultural trust on the association between cultural betrayal sexual trauma and symptoms of PTSD among diverse minoritized youth transitioning to adulthood. Participants ( N = 173) were diverse minoritized college students, who completed a 30-min online questionnaire at a location of their own choosing. Participants received course credit and could decline to answer any question without penalty. The results reveal that the interaction between cultural betrayal sexual trauma and (intra)cultural trust predicted clinically significant symptoms of PTSD. These findings have implications for increased cultural and contextual specificity in trauma research in minoritized populations, which can aid in the development and implementation of culturally competent interventions for diverse minoritized youth survivors of sexual trauma.

Societal Inequality, Health and Well-Being

Well-Being ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 163-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitris Ballas ◽  
Danny Dorling ◽  
Mary Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Societal Inequality ◽  
Health And Well Being

scholarly journals Asymmetric intergroup bullying: The enactment and maintenance of societal inequality at work

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (7) ◽  
pp. 1099-1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soydan Soylu ◽  
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington
Keyword(s):  
Societal Inequality

scholarly journals “Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 1625-1637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Sprong ◽  
Jolanda Jetten ◽  
Zhechen Wang ◽  
Kim Peters ◽  
Frank Mols ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Societal Inequality ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Societal inequality has been found to harm the mental and physical health of its members and undermine overall social cohesion. Here, we tested the hypothesis that economic inequality is associated with a wish for a strong leader in a study involving 28 countries from five continents (Study 1, N = 6,112), a study involving an Australian community sample (Study 2, N = 515), and two experiments (Study 3a, N = 96; Study 3b, N = 296). We found correlational (Studies 1 and 2) and experimental (Studies 3a and 3b) evidence for our prediction that higher inequality enhances the wish for a strong leader. We also found that this relationship is mediated by perceptions of anomie, except in the case of objective inequality in Study 1. This suggests that societal inequality enhances the perception that society is breaking down (anomie) and that a strong leader is needed to restore order (even when that leader is willing to challenge democratic values).

“Tea girl and garden boy” bankers: exploring substantive equality in bankers’ narratives

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Canham
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Substantive Equality ◽  
Productive Potential ◽  
Societal Inequality

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore what narratives of inequality tell us about societal inequality both inside and outside of workplaces. It illuminates the intertwined fates of social agents and the productive potential of seeing organisational actors as social beings in order to advance resistance and substantive equality. Design/methodology/approach This research empirically examines narratives of inequality and substantive empowerment among a group of 25 black bankers within a major bank in Johannesburg, South Africa. Data were gathered through one-on-one interviews. The data were analysed using narrative analysis. Findings The findings indicate that narratives of organisational agents always contain fragments of personal and societal narratives. An intersectional lens of how people experience inequality allows us to work towards a more substantive kind of equality. Substantive equality of organisational actors is closely tied to the recognition and elimination of broader societal inequality. Research limitations/implications The implications for teaching and research are for scholars to methodically centre the continuities between the personal, organisational and societal in ways that highlight the productive tensions and possibilities for a more radical form of equality. Moreover, teaching, research and policy interventions should always foreground how the present comes to be constituted historically. Practical implications Policy and inclusivity interventions would be better served by using substantive empowerment as a theoretical base for deeper changes beyond what we currently conceive of as empowerment. At base, this requires policy makers and diversity practitioners to see all oppression and inequality as interconnected. Individuals are simultaneously organisational beings and societal agents. Social implications Third world approaches to diversity and inclusion need to be vigilant against globalised western notions of equity that are not contextually and historically informed. The failure of equity initiatives in SA means that alternative ideas and approaches are necessary. Originality/value The paper illustrates how individual narratives become social scripts of resistance. It develops a way for attaining substantive empowerment through the use of narrative approaches. It allows us to see that employees are also social agents.

Affect Control Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Hitlin ◽  
Sarah K. Harkness
Keyword(s):  
Control Theory ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Affect Control Theory ◽  
Affect Control ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Societal Inequality ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Broad Overview

This chapter draws on the theoretical and methodological insights from Affect Control theory (ACT), a theory with decades of research and empirical support, to set up our cross-cultural analyses examing our theory of societal inequality. ACT is a formal mathematical theory used to examine how the various facets of social events (such as the identities and emotions) shape ongoing social action. ACT distills the representation of these various facets to their simplest, most universally recognized dimensions of meaning: evaluation (good vs. bad), potency (powerful vs. weak), and activity (fast vs. slow). ACT then provides a way of understanding and modeling social interactions so that it is possible to empirically compare the likely emotions resulting from the same types of interactions in various cultures. The chapter gives a broad overview of the theory so that the reader understands why it is useful and provides justification for the empirical analysis used in the book.

Addiction, inequality and recovery

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Svanberg
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
Health Equality ◽  
Societal Inequality ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the impact of health inequalities on addiction and how the recommendations of the Marmot Review could influence recovery from addiction. The Marmot Review was tasked with devising strategies to reduce health inequalities in England, and rightly recognised that health equality requires a debate about what kind of society we want to live in. When considering societies as a whole, there is a clearer relationship between poor health outcomes and societal inequality; rich countries with a steep social gradient do worse than poorer, but more equal, countries. The chapter first provides an overview of factors that cause substance use and addiction before discussing the role of early life adversity in addiction and the link between inequality and addiction. More specifically, it explains how unequal societies lead to addiction and goes on to consider how society can support recovery from addiction.

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