# An explanation of social conflict? social class and moral foundations. Three meta-analysis

## TL;DR

This paper explores how differences in morality between social classes might explain rising social conflicts, but finds little evidence of a strong link.

## Contribution

The study provides a meta-analysis of moral foundations across social classes to assess their role in social conflict.

## Key findings

- Pooled correlations between social class and moral foundations were not statistically significant.
- The results suggest minimal predictive power of moral foundations in explaining social conflict.
- Data limitations restrict the scope and generalizability of the findings.

## Abstract

Although morality can play an important role in explaining the recent rise of social conflicts inside and outside the Western countries, the study of moral differences between social classes and their possible influence on these social conflicts has been very limited. Thus, this article, which relies on the Moral Foundations Theory, investigates, from a meta-analytic point of view, the relationship of social class (or social ladder, measured as education level, income, and socioeconomic status), and moral foundations, and its possible role as predictor of social conflict. 41 studies (k = 86; N = 285,461), for education level, 26 studies (k = 34; N = 23,889) for income, and 5 studies (k = 16; N = 81,327) for socioeconomic status, were selected. Results showed how all pooled correlations are either statistically not different from zero or of negligible size. Limitations regarding a restrictive range of available data, are discussed.