In the article Social Class Disparities in Health and Education, a new Sociocultural Self Model of Behavior is developed to help explain the theoretical foundation to inequality. The authors believed that the two former models to define disparity were not inclusive. Social class in history has been defined by education, occupation, and income. Social class has a powerful impact of education and healthcare. The model is beneficial for individual outcomes, because it promotes solutions to inequality. The implications of the model is meant to provide self-sustaining interventions that values individualized insight.
The key assumptions of this new Sociocultural Self Model include
The model does include both individual characteristics (values and skills) and structural conditions (money, quality education, healthcare access). These are independent forces that influence each other and have an effect on the individual self. As the self is affected, either positively or negatively, this model structures their social interactions, their motivation, and their overall outcomes. The authors continue to promote guidelines to change and formulate solutions to inequality.
Stephens, N.M., Fryberg, S.A., Markus, H.R. (2012). Social class disparities in health and education: Reducing inequality by applying a socialcultural self model of behavior. Psychological Review, 119 (4), 723-744.
The key assumptions of this new Sociocultural Self Model include
- Individuals and structures are interdependent forces that mutually constitute each other and are best analyzed together.
- Individual characteristics and structural conditions indirectly influence behavior through the selves that are relevant in the situation.
- Selves are a product of the ongoing mutual constitution of individuals and structures and serve to guide people’s behavior by systematically shaping how people construe situations.
The model does include both individual characteristics (values and skills) and structural conditions (money, quality education, healthcare access). These are independent forces that influence each other and have an effect on the individual self. As the self is affected, either positively or negatively, this model structures their social interactions, their motivation, and their overall outcomes. The authors continue to promote guidelines to change and formulate solutions to inequality.
Stephens, N.M., Fryberg, S.A., Markus, H.R. (2012). Social class disparities in health and education: Reducing inequality by applying a socialcultural self model of behavior. Psychological Review, 119 (4), 723-744.