Aries Elizabeth, Seider Maynard
Department of Psychology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002-5000, USA.
J Soc Psychol. 2007 Apr;147(2):137-57. doi: 10.3200/SOCP.147.2.137-157.
The authors explored the influence of social class on identity formation in an interview study of 15 lower income students and 15 affluent students from a highly selective liberal arts school and 15 lower income students from a state college. Students ranked occupational goals as 1st in importance to identity and social class as 2nd. The affluent students regarded social class as significantly more important to identity than did the lower income students, were more aware of structural factors contributing to their success, and had higher occupational aspirations. Social class was an area of exploration for half the students, with higher levels of exploration shown by the lower income private school students than by the state college students. Lower income students developed an ideology that rationalized their social class position.
作者通过对来自一所极具选择性的文理学院的15名低收入学生、15名富裕学生以及一所州立大学的15名低收入学生进行访谈研究，探讨了社会阶层对身份认同形成的影响。学生们将职业目标列为对身份认同最重要的因素，将社会阶层列为第二重要因素。富裕学生认为社会阶层对身份认同的重要性显著高于低收入学生，他们更了解促成自身成功的结构因素，并且有更高的职业抱负。社会阶层是一半学生进行探索的领域，低收入私立学校学生的探索程度高于州立大学学生。低收入学生形成了一种使他们的社会阶层地位合理化的意识形态。
