Social Class and Personality: Everyday people make choices. Researchers in psychology are discovering that one 's social class position seriously impacts how a person interprets their choices. Offsprings from relatively upper-class families are accustomed to the idea of making decisions for themselves and enjoying the relative freedom of making unique choices that set them apart from others. Conversely, the less prosperous and less educated children have very limited material resources and capacity which then renders them with fewer options in life (fewer choices of food, future job opportunities, recreations and toys to choose from, areas to live in, etc...). Such childhood locality/neighborhood raises the possibility that options are of less consequence to individuals belonging to the lower classes. The people who grew up in less affluent circumstances would likely just fit in or get assimilated into the crowd rather than make unique choices that would distinguish them apart from others.
Social class settings drastically influence how we feel about our everyday choices. This basic psychological discrepancy
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