사회계층이 인간의 삶에 미치는 지대한 영향으로 인해 서구 심리학에서는 사회계층에 대한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 하지만 국내 심리학계에서는 심화되고 있는 사회계층화 현상에도 불구하고 학문적 관심은 미비하였으며, 그 개념이나 측정 또한 사회학에서 사용하는 방식을 그대로 차용하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 사회계층 연구의 중요성과 관심을 환기시키기 위해 사회계층이 무엇이며, 어떻게 측정할 것인가에 대한 기초적인 물음을 다루었다. 이를 위해 사회계층 측정과 관련된 다양한 이론적 배경을 살펴보고, 사회계층의 동의어로 사용되는 사회경제적 지위(SES)를 서로 비교하였다. 또한 사회계층 측정 방식을 객관적 사회계층과 주관식 사회계층으로 나누어 각 접근의 특성과 주요 사용 지표를 개관하였다. 마지막으로 국내 심리학에서 발표된 사회계층을 다룬 연구들을 수집, 검토함으로써 현재 사회계층 연구의 현황을 파악하였다. 대상 논문 총 23편 중 65.2%가 객관적 사회계층 지표를 사용하였으며 주로 사용된 지표는 학력, 소득, 직업 순이었다. 주관적 사회계층이 사용된 연구는 7편으로 모두 사회계층 정체성 측정 방식을 사용하였으며, 사회계층을 언급하는 용어로는 총 7가지로 밝혀졌다. 이러한 검토결과를 토대로 향후 연구에서는 사회계층 변인에 대한 보다 직접적 연구가 필요하다는 것, 사회경제적 지위보다 ‘사회계층’을 사용함으로써 용어의 통일성을 기하고, 객관적 지표와 주관적 사회계층 측정에 있어 유의점 등을 제안하였다.
Social class has become a major focus of research in the field of Western psychology due to its critical impact on human life. The Korean scholarship in psychology, however, has paid very little attention to the issue of social class despite the deepening of social stratification in the country; and the concepts and measurement they used were typically borrowed from sociology. In this study, I discussed what social class means and how it should be measured in order to emphasize the importance of the concept and its related issues. To this end, I examined a variety of theoretical backgrounds on the measurement of social class and the concept of socioeconomic status (SES)—a term commonly used as a synonym for social class. This study divided the method of measuring social class into objective social class and subjective social class, and outlined the characteristics of each approach and their main indicators. Finally, I assessed the recent trend in the Korean psychology on social class measurement. Among the 23 studies I have found, 65.2% used the objective social class index; and education was the objective indicator they most frequently employed, followed by income and occupation. Social stratification identity was used in all seven studies that applied subjective social class. And seven different words to describe social class was found. Based on these results, I concluded that there should be a call for more direct research on social class variables. In addition, I suggest that ‘social class’, instead of socioeconomic status, should be used as a preferred term in the future studies and propose a few notes on how to use the objective indicators and subjective social class measurement.
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