Toplumsal sınıfın ahlaki yargılar üzerindeki etkisi

Moral Foundations Theory (MFT; Haidt & Joseph, 2004) explains human moral judgment based on innate and modular foundations (i.e., care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and sanctity) that are shaped by cultural learning. The emphasis on cultural learning attests to the variability in morality. Hence, sociocultural contexts play an important role in moral judgment. Given that social class is one of the most crucial sociocultural contexts (Stephens, Markus, & Townsend, 2007), the present study investigates the effect of social class with a social cognitive perspective (Kraus et al., 2012) on moral judgments by drawing on MFT. We hypothesized that social class (both objective and subjective indices) and are negatively associated with the binding foundations (i.e., loyalty, authority, sanctity), and are positively associated individualizing foundations (i.e., care and fairness); both links mediated by social cognitive tendencies. The findings indicated limited support for the hypotheses, and reveal direct effect of social class on moral judgments.