Unequal Dignity: An Examination of Social Class Differences in Preserving and Protecting Dignity
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Employment organizations are one of the primary sites where individuals’ dignity can be affected–for better or for worse. For some, organizations provide an opportunity to attain and maintain dignity through achievement and positive interactions. For others, organizations impede the attainment or threaten the maintenance of dignity. Although a common subtext of the organizational literature on dignity is that dignity threats unequally and disproportionately affect individuals at the lower end of the socioeconomic and organizational hierarchy, extant research on dignity has rarely considered social class explicitly. In this study, we interviewed 22 employees from diverse social classes to learn about the process through which they experienced threats to their dignity. By integrating dignity and social class, our goal is to shed light on the relatively invisible forces of inequality through a better understanding of felt experiences of (in)dignity.Keywords:
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