Objective Status, Subjective Status and Prosociality of Swiss Apprentices

Ulf Liebe; Nicole Schwitter; Andreas Tutić

doi:10.2478/sjs-2019-0004

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Objective Status, Subjective Status and Prosociality of Swiss Apprentices

Swiss Journal of Sociology

Volume 45 (2019): Issue 1 (March 2019)

By: Ulf Liebe, Nicole Schwitter and Andreas Tutić

Open Access

|Apr 2019

Abstract

In previous research, both positive and negative relationships between social status and prosociality have been reported. We argue that the nature of the observed status can explain these divergent findings. In an experimental study with technical and commercial apprentices, we show that objective status can have a positive effect on prosocial behaviour and that subjective status can have a negative effect when controlling for objective status.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2019-0004 | Journal eISSN: 2297-8348

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