Elaborating the Connection between Social Class and Classism in College
Autor: | Rachel Shor, Kris T. Gebhard, Wing Yi Chan, Nour H Elshabassi, Lauren Bennett Cattaneo |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
Educational equity
Adult Male Health (social science) Adolescent Universities Interpersonal communication Social class 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult Ethnicity Community psychology Economic Status Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Social identity theory Students Socioeconomic status Applied Psychology 030505 public health 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Emigration and Immigration Middle Aged United States Scholarship Social Class Female 0305 other medical science Social psychology Prejudice 050104 developmental & child psychology Social status |
Zdroj: | American journal of community psychology. 63(3-4) |
ISSN: | 1573-2770 |
Popis: | Scholarship has documented the challenges that face college students of marginalized economic backgrounds, an issue that is relevant for Community Psychology because of the field's commitment to social justice. Community psychologists are concerned with facilitating access to social resources such as education across the full range of social identities. The current study builds on recent research that has identified the key role of classism in students' struggles. We developed a new measure of college student financial stress in order to investigate the relationship between indices of social class (financial stress, subjective social status, and parental education) and indices of classism (institutional, interpersonal, and citational). We also explored whether race or immigration status moderated these relationships in a sample of diverse students (N = 278). Findings show that students' current financial stress has the strongest relationship with classism, and immigration status moderates the exposure to citational classism. Specifically, we found evidence for perpetuation of classism among U.S. born students higher on the social class ladder. Implications for future research include the importance of considering multiple domains of social class, studying social class in a context-specific way, and differentiating dimensions of classism. Findings also suggest that financial stress is an important focus in the work to support marginalized students, and that classist narratives need to be addressed among students of higher social class. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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