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Title	"that's classy!": a workshop exploring the influence of social class
Abstract	Social class is often defined as one's income, occupation status, and education level. This definition fails to examine the culture that is created within each social class background. Class plays an important role in communication style, worldviews, hobbies, rules for interaction, one's access to valued resources, such as education and medical care, and more. Diversity trainings and the research literature have been criticized for ignoring the diversity of social class, and how these differences influence interpersonal encounters (Ming-Lui, 2011). In addition, when social class is mentioned, it is often referring to those from low-income backgrounds, with little attention towards upper-class individuals (Fiske & Markus, 2012). For this project, the researcher developed a workshop that aimed to increase the visibility of social class as an important form of diversity. The workshop was interactive and focused on issues of social class, including the stereotypes of each class group, meritocracy, and classism. The workshop was administered to 39 undergraduate students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The results of the evaluation of the workshop demonstrated that workshop participants (when compared to the control condition) had lower levels of prejudice towards social class groups, increased knowledge about issues of social class, and an increased understanding of their own social class background.
Date	2016

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Title: "that's classy!": a workshop exploring the influence of social class
Personal Name(s): Poet, Andrea Denise
McHugh, Maureen
Corporate Name(s): Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Psychology.
Note: Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McHugh, Maureen Committee members: Anson Long; David Myers.
Topical Subject(s): Behavioral psychology
Social psychology
Personality psychology
Cognitive psychology