Rising classes fear social judgment for lacking upper-class know-how

Evidence

I think it’s hard. Let’s say—let’s take me, for instance. Supposing I came into a lot of money, and I moved into a nice neighborhood—class— maybe I wouldn’t know how to act then. I think it’s very hard, because people know that you just—word gets around that you…never had it before you got it now. Well, maybe they wouldn’t like you…maybe you don’t know how to act. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2236

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete first-person evidence of the discomfort with status mobility that Bourdieu’s habitus concept theorizes. — connects to: Lower classes are most vulnerable to authority because socialization denies them ego-strength — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 610