"Be Rich And Cruel?" The Relationship Between Social Class And Moral Sensitivity

At all times and at home and abroad,it is generally believed that the rich will behave more unethically.Moral sensitivity is the starting point of moral behavior,it is very important in the process of the generation of moral behavior position from the perspective of social class,this study discusses the subjective objective social class social stratum on the relationship between the individual moral sensitivity and concrete can be divided into three child studies,this study to investigate the relationship between the social classes and the moral sensitivity step by step.In previous studies,the measurement of moral sensitivity has focused on specific occupations and situations.Therefore,in study 1,we put forward a new measuring normal individual moral sensitivity level questionnaire and the methods of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis of moral sensitivity of the reliability of the questionnaire validity between different groups of invariance were measured respectively by sample of 21054 adults and 1951 pupils sample data is analyzed,the results show that the moral sensitivity questionnaire can effectively measure an individual's moral sensitivity level.In previous studies on the relationship between social class and morality,the different influences of subjective social class and objective social class were not considered.Therefore,in study 2,we analyzed the relationship between subjective social class,objective social class and moral sensitivity with the help of large sample data from China comprehensive social survey.The results of multivariate regression analysis show that subjective social class and objective social class can significantly positively predict moral sensitivity.However,when we use both objective social class and subjective social class to predict moral sensitivity,we find that subjective social class becomes significantly negative to predict moral sensitivity.Further analysis of mediating effect shows that subjective social class plays a significant role in mediating between objective social class and moral sensitivity.Previous studies have also found that individual social cognition has an impact on the role of social strata.Therefore,in study 3,in order to further explore the mechanism of action of social classes of moral sensitivity,we are studying two mediation model on the basis of increased income fairness as regulating variable research results show that the income of fairness in objective social class objective and subjective social class social stratum and the moral sensitivity of both has played a significant negative regulatory role.The results show that objective social class and subjective social class have different effects on individual moral sensitivity.On the one hand,compared with the low objective social class with a lack of education and a bad living environment,the high objective social class has a higher level of moral sensitivity.On the other hand,the subjective social class positioning will deviate from the objective social class under the influence of social comparison,resulting in different social cognitive tendencies of individuals,thus reducing the moral sensitivity of people with high subjective social class.Moreover,our further research also found that the sense of income equity,as an important social cognition of individuals,plays an important regulating role in the mediation model.In a word,this study systematically discusses the relationship between social class and moral sensitivity,which not only solves the contradiction in previous studies to a certain extent,but also provides certain contributions to the research of related neighborhood.