Socioeconomic Inequality in Decoding Instructions and Demonstrating Knowledge

Kozlowski, Karen Phelan

doi:10.1007/s11133-019-09442-y

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“…Yet, each of these factors has the potential to be blocked by what we call "countering conditions," or conditions that counteract the mechanisms that lead individuals from different origins to produce different styles. Research suggests that countering a single of the above factors reduces the number of class differences in presentation styles but does not eliminate them (Calarco 2014;Kozlowski 2020;Streib 2015). We examine whether individuals from different origins present the same styles when four countering conditions are present at once.…”

Section: Cultural Matching Theorymentioning

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Countering Cultural Matching? Class and the Cultural Styles Applicants Present to Gatekeepers

Streib¹,

Rochmes²,

Arriaga³

et al. 2020

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Cultural matching theory holds that class reproduction occurs when individuals from different class origins present different cultural styles to gatekeepers, who in turn select advantaged individuals based upon their styles. This theory also suggests that class reproduction will be disrupted if individuals from different origins present gatekeepers with the same styles. We investigate whether this is possible by examining a case in which similarities are particularly likely to occur: a situation in which public instructions give applicants from each class common information about what styles gatekeepers reward, gatekeepers select among applicants from each class who share access to similar styles, and applicants are likely to use the same styles as they are given time to strategize and need only present each style superficially. Drawing upon a content analysis of over 1,000 randomly selected applications that were written under these conditions, we find that individuals from different class origins present several similar styles but that differences remain. We conclude that the simultaneous presence of these conditions is unlikely to block class reproduction by erasing cultural differences.

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Section: Cultural Matching Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, researchers have found that explicit instructions increase the degree to which children from different origins hold common and accurate understanding about gatekeepers' preferences, though they do not lead to the production of completely similar styles (Calarco 2014;Kozlowski 2020).…”

Section: Cultural Matching Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Countering Cultural Matching? Class and the Cultural Styles Applicants Present to Gatekeepers

Streib¹,

Rochmes²,

Arriaga³

et al. 2020

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Class and the cultural styles applicants present to gatekeepers

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Rochmes

Arriaga

et al. 2021

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Toward a multifaceted understanding of Lareau's “sense of entitlement”: Bridging sociological and psychological constructs

Golann

Darling-Aduana

2020

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In her influential ethnographic study, Lareau proposed that intensive middle‐class parenting strategies produce in children a “sense of entitlement” that can be used to gain advantages in schools and other institutional settings. In this article, we review both sociological and psychological studies to propose a multifaceted understanding of a sense of entitlement that challenges the assumption that the consequences of entitlement are exclusively positive. We also compare “sense of entitlement” with four psychological constructs—academic entitlement, help‐seeking, interpersonal control, and agentic engagement—that provide critical clues for subsequent empirical efforts. Our study highlights the benefits of bridging sociological and psychological work, not only to connect related disciplines and concepts, but also to assess and refine theory.

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Socioeconomic Inequality in Decoding Instructions and Demonstrating Knowledge

Cited by 3 publications

References 33 publications

Countering Cultural Matching? Class and the Cultural Styles Applicants Present to Gatekeepers

Countering Cultural Matching? Class and the Cultural Styles Applicants Present to Gatekeepers

Class and the cultural styles applicants present to gatekeepers

Toward a multifaceted understanding of Lareau's “sense of entitlement”: Bridging sociological and psychological constructs

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