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The Impact of Downward Classism on Social Class Concealment among College Students Who Are Low-Income
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Mun Yuk Chin; Jay Jeffries; Mindi N. Thompson – Journal of College Student Development, 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…
Descriptors: Social Class, Bias, Low Income Students, College Students