Some scholars see class as increasingly irrelevant in shaping opinions toward inequality, while others maintain that it endures. However, what is often problematic with research in this area is the conflation of class and status. Further, contemporary accounts of peoples’ perceptions of inequality often draw on insights from stratification or from political affiliation but do not consider the interplay between these. This article fills this gap by exploring perceptions of inequality through class, status, and political perspectives. Drawing on data from the International Social Survey Program, I investigate how class, status, and partisanship affect critical attitudes toward inequality differently. The findings reveal that social class influences how people perceive income inequality in their society and that these effects are different from that of status. Further, the results reveal the profound effect that vote choice has on the class effects toward perceptions of inequality. The evidence produced in this article casts considerable doubt on those claiming the demise of class, provides new evidence in support of the separation of social class and status in terms of perceptions of inequality, and also resonates with research on the impact of vote choice in shaping orientations toward economic and political equality.

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阶级如何塑造对不平等的批判性怨恨：分层与政治的竞争力量

一些学者认为阶级在形成对不平等的看法方面越来越无关紧要，而另一些学者则坚持认为它持续存在。然而，这一领域的研究经常出现问题的是阶级和地位的混为一谈。此外，当代对人们对不平等的看法的描述往往借鉴了分层或政治派别的见解，但没有考虑这些之间的相互作用。本文通过从阶级、地位和政治角度探索对不平等的看法来填补这一空白。利用国际社会调查计划的数据，我调查了阶级、地位和党派关系如何以不同的方式影响对不平等的批判态度。研究结果表明，社会阶层影响人们如何看待社会中的收入不平等，而且这些影响与地位不同。此外，结果揭示了投票选择对阶级对不平等看法的影响。本文所提供的证据对那些声称阶级消亡的人提出了相当大的质疑，为支持社会阶级和地位在不平等认知方面的分离提供了新的证据，也与关于投票选择对塑造的影响的研究产生了共鸣。经济和政治平等的方向。