Resentment and Class Structure

• What is the role of resentment in reinforcing class structure?
• “Resentment is a feeling experience by social actors when an external agency denies them opportunities or valued resources that otherwise would be available to them”
• is experienced individually and incorporated into a sense of self, but it is also an embedded and collective dimension of social structure.

• is an emotion at the macroscopic level. Not reducible to an individual state, it structures our social relationships.
• Different classes have different emotion rules, systems and norms. These rules prevent movement between classes.
•  Why is it rude to ask a colleague how much they make? How would workplaces be different if employees were told how much everybody else earned?