All Outputs (9)

‘All about the NHS and what about the rest of us?’: Exploring how low-paid health and social care workers construct key stakeholders and account for the UK's response to the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Buckley, T., & Carr, P. (2024). ‘All about the NHS and what about the rest of us?’: Exploring how low-paid health and social care workers construct key stakeholders and account for the UK's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 34(2), Article e2780. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2780

Good practice on disaster response emphasises the importance of leadership and cohesive group identities. The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to explore how low-paid health and social care workers (HSCWs) accounted for the UK government's r... Read More about ‘All about the NHS and what about the rest of us?’: Exploring how low-paid health and social care workers construct key stakeholders and account for the UK's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Toilet talk: (Trans) Gendered negotiation of public spaces (2023)
Book Chapter
Somers, J., Demasi, M., Burke, S., & Carr, P. (2023). Toilet talk: (Trans) Gendered negotiation of public spaces. In E. Tseliou, C. Demuth, E. Georgaca, & B. Gough (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research. Routledge

Public toilet provision in the UK fails to meet the needs of cis women while trans communities are absent from current building regulations. This research explores how individuals negotiate differing positions on toilet provision and accessibility. T... Read More about Toilet talk: (Trans) Gendered negotiation of public spaces.

Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy (2023)
Journal Article
Carr, P., Goodman, S., Jowett, A., & Abell, J. (in press). Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy. Social Semiotics, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2023.2235285

Recent years have seen the proliferation of television broadcasts that focus on the lavish lifestyles and consumption of “rich kids.” However, flaunting inherited wealth is an accountable activity within UK society that claims to be based on meritocr... Read More about Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy.

‘How the other half lives’?: Taking a critical approach to the social psychology of economic inequality and extreme wealth (2023)
Journal Article
Carr, P. (2023). ‘How the other half lives’?: Taking a critical approach to the social psychology of economic inequality and extreme wealth. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(5), Article e12743. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12743

The negative impact of economic inequality on social issues and wellbeing is of importance to social psychology that historically has an interest in social justice. Social Identity Theory is explored as an approach that acknowledges the wider context... Read More about ‘How the other half lives’?: Taking a critical approach to the social psychology of economic inequality and extreme wealth.

Getting what you deserve? (2022)
Other
Goodman, S., Carr, P., & Abell, J. (2022). Getting what you deserve?. [Magazine print/digital]. The Psychologist Magasine July/August 2022 - Income Inequality

The UK is a particularly unequal society, with the richest 0.1 per cent of households having as much wealth as the poorest half of all households (Equality Trust, 2022). Wilkinson and Pickett (2017) have shown that such elevated levels of income ineq... Read More about Getting what you deserve?.

‘You come back fighting. That’s what gives you the drive to achieve’: The extraordinary psychological construction of the super-rich in entertainment documentaries (2021)
Journal Article
Carr, P., Goodman, S., Jowett, A., & Abell, J. (2021). ‘You come back fighting. That’s what gives you the drive to achieve’: The extraordinary psychological construction of the super-rich in entertainment documentaries. Discourse and Society, 32(5), 559-574. https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211013117

Inequality in society is legitimised through the ‘meritocracy myth’ and existing research claims that the affluence of the super-rich is the result of their superior traits. Discursive Social Psychology examines the ways in which psychological concep... Read More about ‘You come back fighting. That’s what gives you the drive to achieve’: The extraordinary psychological construction of the super-rich in entertainment documentaries.

Extending the boundaries of political communication: How ideology can be examined in super-rich television documentaries using Discursive Psychology (2020)
Book Chapter
Carr, P. (2020). Extending the boundaries of political communication: How ideology can be examined in super-rich television documentaries using Discursive Psychology. In M. Demasi, S. Burke, & C. Tileagă (Eds.), Political Communication: Discursive Perspectives (89-114). London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60223-9_4

Political communication is not static and takes a range of forms due to technological change requiring researchers to diversify their interests. When examining talk about wealth inequality, focusing on the overtly political is problematic as issues s... Read More about Extending the boundaries of political communication: How ideology can be examined in super-rich television documentaries using Discursive Psychology.

‘I don’t think there is any moral basis for taking money away from people’: Using discursive psychology to explore the complexity of talk about tax (2018)
Journal Article
Carr, P., Goodman, S., & Jowett, A. (2019). ‘I don’t think there is any moral basis for taking money away from people’: Using discursive psychology to explore the complexity of talk about tax. Critical Discourse Studies, 16(1), 84-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2018.1511440

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The increasing recognition of the negative impact of income inequality has highlighted the importance of taxation which can function as a redistributive mechanism. Previous critical soc... Read More about ‘I don’t think there is any moral basis for taking money away from people’: Using discursive psychology to explore the complexity of talk about tax.

The just world hypothesis as an argumentative resource in debates about unemployment benefits (2017)
Journal Article
Goodman, S., & Carr, P. (2017). The just world hypothesis as an argumentative resource in debates about unemployment benefits. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 27(4), 312-323. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2314

Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The concept of the “just world” is established as a key explanation for how people make sense of inequality so that those deemed to score high in belief in a just world are more likely to hold prejudicial be... Read More about The just world hypothesis as an argumentative resource in debates about unemployment benefits.