While there is a strong cross-sectional association between social class and political attitudes, recent research—based on longitudinal data—finds that changes in class are, at most, weakly related to changes in such attitudes. One common explanation for this finding is that early life socialization affects both social class and political attitudes and that class has little, if any, direct effect on them. In this manuscript, we explore an alternative explanation that centers on the importance of cumulative class experiences for the long-term evolution of attitudes. To evaluate this perspective, we leverage data from the British Household Panel Survey, which contains measures of economic values that span up to 16 years, as well as complete work-life histories of respondents that allow us to track individual class experiences over people’s life span. Our findings show that cumulative class experiences are strongly associated with the development of economic values.

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阶级经验和经济价值的长期演变


虽然社会阶层和政治态度之间存在很强的横断面关联，但最近的研究（基于纵向数据）发现，阶级变化与这种态度的变化最多是微弱的关联。对这一发现的一个常见解释是，早期生活的社会化会影响社会阶层和政治态度，而这个阶层对他们几乎没有直接影响。在这份手稿中，我们探讨了另一种解释，该解释集中在累积的阶级经验对态度长期演变的重要性上。为了评估这一观点，我们利用了英国家庭调查的数据，其中包含长达 16 年的经济价值衡量标准，以及受访者的完整工作生活史，使我们能够跟踪人们一生中个人的阶级经历。我们的研究结果表明，累积的阶级经验与经济价值观的发展密切相关。