When class and race collapse

Theoretically Distinguishing Between College Students’ Intersectional Positions and Their Status Groups

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ID6431041
AutoresDavid Shuang Song (0000-0001-9906-2460, University of Oklahoma, autor correspondente), Anthony Lising Antonio (0000-0002-7083-0355, Stanford University), Pearl Lo (0000-0002-6254-368X, University of Maryland College of Education, College Park, MD, USA)
Ano2024
Volume34
Fascículo1
Páginas51-75
Data de publicação2024-07-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Studies in Sociology of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0962-0214 • E-ISSN: 1747-5066
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09620214.2024.2378704
OpenAlexW4400650779
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas54

In a longitudinal interview-based study of racial-minority students of low-income or working-class origin at an elite private university in the United States, we examine how class and race co-determine students' friendship-making patterns. We advance previous research in college students' friendship-making by applying a dual lens of intersectionality theory and sociological group-making. Using this lens, we find that class and race collapse into each other, but in two distinct ways. Our main sample of multiply marginalized students occupy a class-racial intersectional position. By contrast, their class-race counterparts, who are envisioned and described as wealthy Whites, constitute not a class-racial intersectional position but a class-racial status group, leading to analytically distinct friendship-making dynamics between the two types of students. Our findings also entreat us to call for an analytical distinction between intersectional position and status group, leading to a dual lens that will serve future sociological research attentive to group-making processes and group-based conflict

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