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  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology

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  • Social inequalities persist due to structural factors like systematic exclusion based on group membership (gender, race, socioeconomic status).
  • These inequalities place marginalized groups at higher risk for negative emotional, learning, and health outcomes.
  • Understanding the origins of beliefs and behaviors underlying social inequalities is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To synthesize current knowledge on children's and adolescents' awareness, beliefs, and behaviors regarding social inequalities.
  • To explore the developmental origins of understanding social inequalities.
  • To identify how developmental science can foster a more just society.

Main Methods:

  • Review and synthesis of recent evidence from developmental science.
  • Drawing on a social reasoning developmental framework.
  • Analysis of children's and adolescents' capacities for understanding and rectifying inequalities in peer contexts.

Main Results:

  • Awareness of social inequalities emerges in childhood.
  • Children actively seek explanations for observed disparities.
  • Children and adolescents demonstrate early abilities to manage and rectify inequalities in resource distribution among peers.

Conclusions:

  • Children's understanding of social inequalities begins early in development.
  • Developmental science offers pathways to mitigate harmful biases and promote social justice.
  • Interventions focused on early childhood can address the roots of social inequality.