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- Title
The Interactive Relationship Between Class Identity and the College Experience: The Case of Lower Income Students.
- Authors
Aries, Elizabeth; Seider, Maynard
- Abstract
To probe the role that college context plays in influencing the class-based aspects of identity for lower income students, we interviewed 30 lower income students, 15 from an elite college and 15 from a state college. Significant disparities of wealth between students at the elite college heightened awareness of class, and led to feelings of intimidation, discomfort, inadequacy, deficiency, exclusion, and powerlessness among lower income students, feelings that were less prevalent among state college students. Students at both colleges acquired new forms of cultural capital and coped with class-based discontinuities between who they were before college and who they were becoming, but these issues became heightened for the elite college students.
- Subjects
CLASS identity; COLLEGE students; POOR people; STATE universities &; colleges; SOCIAL classes; ELITE (Social sciences)
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2005, Vol 28, Issue 4, p419
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-005-8366-1