Margot Déage

@margotdeage.bsky.social

Sociologue : UGA, LaRAC Genre, Violences, Numérique, Jeunesse

De l'influence de la mobilité sociale sur la prise de conscience du dérèglement climatique (bravo la socio! Et bravo lesa auteurs) Shorter: les personnes en mobilité sociale ascend. tendent à minimiser, les personnes en mobilité descend. sont plus affectées et consciente des changements induits

Climate concern predicts perceived downward mobility across three countries.
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Daily-life impact and blocked opportunities outperform general climate worry.
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Effects are stronger for general than socioeconomic mobility perceptions.
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Associations are strongest in the UK and weakest in Sweden.
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Gender differences are clearer than cohort or education differences.BildBild
CREST Sociology@crestsociology.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW ARTICLE by CREST Sociology's Patrick Präg in Journal of Environmental Psychology: "Climate change concerns and perceived intergenerational mobility" OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Research on climate change has examined risk perceptions, emotional distress, and support for mitigation policies, while research on perceived intergenerational mobility has focused primarily on economic and structural determinants of whether people feel better or worse off than their parents. Much less is known about whether climate-related concerns also shape these intergenerational self-assessments. Using original survey data from the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden, this study investigates whether climate change concerns, measured through climate worry, daily-life impact, and reduced opportunity, are associated with perceived changes in social position relative to one’s parents. We distinguish between general life evaluations and perceptions of socioeconomic mobility. Results show that individuals who feel that climate change negatively affects their daily life or future opportunities are more likely to report being downwardly mobile, particularly when reflecting on their life more broadly rather than in strictly socioeconomic terms. These relationships are strongest in the United Kingdom and weakest in Sweden. We find limited evidence that the relationship between climate concerns and mobility perceptions differs systematically across birth cohorts, education, or gender. These findings contribute to emerging scholarship linking environmental disruption with subjective well-being, social identity, and perceptions of intergenerational fairness by showing that climate change matters not only for environmental attitudes and distress, but also for how individuals evaluate generational progress and decline in their own lives.