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ERIC Number: EJ1429778
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0897-5264
EISSN: EISSN-1543-3382
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The Impact of Downward Classism on Social Class Concealment among College Students Who Are Low-Income
Mun Yuk Chin; Jay Jeffries; Mindi N. Thompson
Journal of College Student Development, v65 n3 p316-320 2024
Results from a growing body of correlational and qualitative research have illustrated the ways in which students who are poor or working class manage their social class identities in higher education. Strategies of class code-switching (e.g., altering language) and disassociation (e.g., hiding status) were commonly used by students to manage the stigma associated with their lower social class statuses as well as pressures toward upward mobility in college settings. The study was conducted between September 2018 and May 2019 in a large, selective, public land grant university in the US Midwest. In this study, participants' concealment frequency was linked with their interaction partners' social status. Overall, findings demonstrate that participants' experiences of social class concealment were more relationally dependent (i.e., others' statuses) and less dispositional in nature.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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