Heather Bullock is a Professor of Psychology and Director of
the Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, &
Participatory Governance. Her research focuses on social
psychological dimensions of economic (in)justice. She is
interested in how members of different socioeconomic groups
understand and justify poverty and wealth, as well as their own
relative status. Much of her work in this area examines how
classist stereotypes and attributions for poverty influence
support for various welfare and anti-poverty policies.
Professor Bullock also studies interpersonal classism in the
lives of low-income women. She is working to document the
conditions under which classist behaviors are most likely to
occur and the intersections of classism, racism, and sexism. Of
special concern is discrimination that occurs in settings in
which low-income groups rely on others for assistance (e.g.,
social services, medical care).
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