Social identity and economic inequalities

IF 0.7 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES

Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI:10.1080/13504630.2022.2029740

Ensar Yılmaz, Sinem Bağçe

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Neoclassical economists explain social phenomena in the decision-making process with the rational and prudent agent, seeking the highest amount of personal utility with her idiosyncratic preferences. However, atomistic choices and preferences cannot explain the phenomena, such as unequal living conditions and discrimination in labor. The agent, as a human being, is always in interaction with the social environment. Social identity is one of the areas in which the social environment is influential. Social identities are associated with social inequalities, directed by some practices, attitudes and institutions that negatively affect the life prospects of social groups of different identities. Therefore, economists need the social unifying analytical concepts, such as social identity, to comprehend the inequalities and related issues, such as redistribution policies in societies.

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社会认同与经济不平等

摘要新古典经济学家以理性审慎的主体来解释决策过程中的社会现象，以其独特的偏好来寻求最大的个人效用。然而，原子性的选择和偏好并不能解释这些现象，例如不平等的生活条件和劳动歧视。代理人作为一个人，总是与社会环境互动。社会认同是社会环境影响的领域之一。社会身份与社会不平等有关，一些做法、态度和制度对不同身份的社会群体的生活前景产生了负面影响。因此，经济学家需要社会统一的分析概念，如社会认同，来理解社会中的不平等和相关问题，如再分配政策。

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Social Identities ETHNIC STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Recent years have witnessed considerable worldwide changes concerning social identities such as race, nation and ethnicity, as well as the emergence of new forms of racism and nationalism as discriminatory exclusions. Social Identities aims to furnish an interdisciplinary and international focal point for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities. The journal is especially concerned to address these issues in the context of the transforming political economies and cultures of postmodern and postcolonial conditions. Social Identities is intended as a forum for contesting ideas and debates concerning the formations of, and transformations in, socially significant identities, their attendant forms of material exclusion and power.