Privileging Class
Toward a Critical Psychology of Social Class in the Context of Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10222002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joan M Ostrove (0000-0001-9178-1217, Macalester College, corresponding author), Elizabeth R Cole (0000-0002-3124-5858) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 677-692 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1046/j.0022-4537.2003.00084.x |
| OpenAlex | W2079228847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 68 |
This issue of the Journal of Social Issues explores psychological meanings of social class in the context of education. In this article we propose an outline for a critical psychology of social class and discuss why education is a useful context for examining relations between class and individual psychology. We consider how research and theory in the study of race and gender can and cannot inform a psychology of social class. We introduce three themes that organize the issue and the articles that illustrate them. The articles in this issue address all levels of education, include data from within and outside of the United States, and investigate perspectives of individuals from a range of social class groups . “What I remember most about school was that if you were poor you got no respect and no encouragement. I mean if you didn't have cute ringlets, an ironed new uniform, starched shirts, and a mother and father who gave money to the church, you weren't a teacher's pet and that meant you weren't encouraged.” —a working‐class woman respondent interviewed in Luttrell, 1993 Class differences were boundaries no one wanted to face or talk about. It was easier to downplay them, to act as though we were all from privileged backgrounds, to work around them, to confront them privately in the solitude of one's room, or to pretend that just being chosen to study at such an institution meant that those of us who did not come from such privilege were already in transition toward privilege ... . It was a kind of treason not to believe that it was better to be identified with the world of material privilege than with the world of the working class, the poor. — hooks, 1989
Class (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Institution · Life chances · Political science · Privilege (computing · Respondent · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology
(Not) minding the gap
Social Class and Belonging
Feeling” hierarchy
How social status translates into university students’ well-being
A First Class Measure
Gender stereotypes, class, and race in attributions of blame for women's gender‐linked mistreatment
Approaches to Representing Social Hierarchy Level and Social Constructs
The cultural omnivore hypothesis applied to reading habits
Shifting perceptions of social class
Sleep as a mediator of the relationship between social class and health in higher education students
Does Class Matter? The Centrality and Meaning of Social Class Identity in Emerging Adulthood
I Felt Like Being Upgraded’
The strongman phenomenon
Don't skip class
Naeronambul
Student Wellbeing in Higher Education
Assessing Implicit and Explicit Attitudes about Classism
Stereotypes in Attributions About Women’s Gender-Based Mistreatment
Social class and models of agency
Not just who you are, but who you were before
Surviving in Dangerous Places
Inequality in the Extracurriculum
Their Great Shame is Poverty”
Society in the Classroom
L’intersectionnalité et l’histoire de la psychologie
Elaborating the Connection between Social Class and Classism in College
The development of the Systems and Individual Responsibility for Poverty (Sirp) Scale
The Role of Language & Discourse in the Investigation of Privilege
Poor but Warm, Rich but Cold (and Competent)
Introduction
Re‐Establishing the Social‐Class Order
SPSSI and Poverty
How the Intersections of Ethnic and Socioeconomic Identities are Associated with Well‐Being during College
From “Cliques” to “Common Ground”
Effects of status and outcome on attributions and just-world beliefs
Social Status Identity
The Janus of Diversity
Where People Like Me Don't Belong
Becoming Conscious of the American Middle Class (Un)consciousness
Off white
Keeping track
The context of social psychology
Readings in Social Psychology
The Psychology of Social Classes
This fine place so far from home
Black Picket Fences, Second Edition
The Shape of the River
Objective and subjective assessments of socioeconomic status and their relationship to self-rated health in an ethnically diverse sample of pregnant women.
Gender, Racial, Ethnic, Sexual, and Class Identities
Measuring Social Class in US Public Health Research
Class and conformity
Ghetto Schooling
Social class and mental illness
Ambiguous Bodies
Ideology, False Consciousness and Psychology
Race, Class, & Gender
Class Awareness in the United States
Class Counts
Black Feminist Thought
Facing Up to the American Dream Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation
Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education
The Ecology of Human Development
Extending the Concept of Stereotype Threat to Social Class
US Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health
Women without Class
Socioeconomic Differentials in Health
Some dubious premises in research and theory on racial differences
Internalized Classism
Assimilation Blues
Speaking of Abortion
Racial discrimination and blood pressure
The Three Faces of Social Psychology
Low‐Income Parents and the Public Schools
From Passive Acceptance to Active Commitment
Cognitive and behavioral distancing from the poor
Socioeconomic status and health
The Public Nature of Private Violence
Talking Back
Mapping the Margins
Invidious Comparisons
The place of personality and social structure research in social psychology
Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity
A threat in the air
An Interpretation of the Relation Between Objective and Subjective Social Status
Socioeconomic inequality and psychopathology
Talking Back
Assimilation Blues
Race, Class, and Gender in America
Social Structure and Personality
Social Standing in America
Moving Up With Kin and Community
Social Class and Parental Attitudes Toward Education
Social Psychology of Identities
Identities
Branded with Infamy
The Teachers, They All Had Their Pets
The Medical Construction of Gender
Industrial Man
| Unique citing works | 39 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,95 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |