Study On The Perceived Distributive Justice Of Different Social Class―the Role Of Justice Sensitivity

Although there are so many studies focused on the field of perceived justice, almost of them are about organizational justice. The studies on the perceived social justice are rare. And also the concept of social class has a long history, it has been well-discussed in the field of politics, sociology and so on. But in psychology, the study of social class is just a beginning. From the perspective of psychology, it can be said is basically new to explore the relationship between social class and perceived social justice.In nowaday’s China, the gap between rich and poor is widening, social class and justice increasingly occupy a certain weight in social discourse. The study of different social class’s perceived social justice, particularly the distrubition justice, increasingly become an urgent matter. This paper focuses on the major issues that whether the objective and subjective social class can predict the perceived distribition justice, and whether the levels of objective and subjective social class have the different perceived distribution justice. This is the content of the Study One, it is studied by randomly distributed questionnaires in the Huazhong Normal University compus.Study One concluded that only subjective social class can predict perceived distribution justice. So we want to clarify its internal mechanism further. According to existing researchs on social cognition tendencies of different social class, the different social class have different social cognitive tendencies, such as high social class have the solipsism tendency and low social class have the contextualism cognitive tendency. The difference in the social cognitive tendency may cause the different level of justice sensitivity. That is to say, justice sensitivity may play an intermediary role in the relationship between social class and distribution justice. Social class may have oositive forecast on the distributiong justice through justice sensitivity.On the basis of Study One, Study Two attempts to validate the model. Although signicant mediating effect is existed, we get a slightly different prediction model that social class have negative forcast on the distribution justice through justice sensitivity. There is no literature could reasonably explain the fact. Finally, the limitation of the present research in the research methods and design problems and the direction of future research have been discussed. And also explains the theoretical and practical significance of this study.