Stratum Identification and Consciousness

Gurin, Patricia; Miller, Arthur H.; Gurin, Gerald

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“…"Group identification includes identifying areas of common experience and concern, a preference for one's own group culture and norms, and the development of feelings of shared fate: group membership becomes a central aspect of one's self-concept" (Gurin, Miller & Gurin, 1980). The psychological process of group identification relates closely to the psychological process of developing one's ethnic identity, and one could make a case that the relationship between ethnic identity and empowerment is such that a strong sense of one's ethnic identity can enhance one's ability to impact social change, especially around issues of ethnicity.…”

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Role of Ethnic Identity in Participatory Processes That Facilitate Psychological Empowerment Among Urban Youth

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2011

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The current study involved the development and testing of a path model to predict psychological empowerment for urban youth ages 13-17. Data from a survey of urban youth in a city in the northeast United States were analyzed to test the model. The variables included in the model were: perceived neighborhood problems, neighborhood sense of community, social support, participation in community and school activities, and ethnic identity. Utilizing structural equation modeling, survey data were analyzed to determine whether the hypothesized model fit the data and to examine how the five predictor factors influenced an individual's level of psychological empowerment, as measured by the revised sociopolitical control scale. Path models were developed for the full sample and for gender-specific subgroups. Results showed that the hypothesized model provided a good fit to the data from the full sample of participants and crucial differences existed in the models for females and males. A key finding of this study was the critical role of ethnic identity in the psychological empowerment process; it was empowerment's strongest predictor variable for all three models. Key gender-related differences included the direct effect of perceived neighborhood problems on empowerment and the negative effect of perceived neighborhood problems on social support being mediated by neighborhood sense of community for females but not males.Strategies to promote ethnic identity development and implications for practice based on full sample and gender-specific differences are presented. Limitations and directions for future research are also discussed.iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Role of Ethnic Identity in Participatory Processes That Facilitate Psychological Empowerment Among Urban Youth

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2011

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“…Perhaps because the Democratic party is comprised of a broader coalition of diverse groups, Democrats are more aware of groups and are more likely to think about politics in group terms. Furthermore, earlier research reveals that some of the minority groups in the Democratic coalition, such as blacks, have a higher proportion of individuals who identify very strongly with their social group than do people in the subgroups comprising the Republican party (Gurin et al 1980). even among Republican identifiers.…”

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A Reference Group Theory of Partisan Coalitions

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1991

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“…Studies have relied, instead, on measures of social class identification and have focused on political and cultural attitudes and behavior. [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] Almost none have looked at health. Two major problems exist with the use of class identification as a proxy for social status.…”

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Adolescents' Perceptions of Social Status: Development and Evaluation of a New Indicator

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ABSTRACT. Objective. Eliminating health disparities, including those that are a result of socioeconomic status (SES), is one of the overarching goals of Healthy People 2010. This article reports on the development of a new, adolescent-specific measure of subjective social status (SSS) and on initial exploratory analyses of the relationship of SSS to adolescents' physical and psychological health.Methods. A cross-sectional study of 10 843 adolescents and a subsample of 166 paired adolescent/mother dyads who participated in the Growing Up Today Study was conducted. The newly developed MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status (10-point scale) was used to measure SSS. Paternal education was the measure of SES. Indicators of psychological and physical health included depressive symptoms and obesity, respectively. Linear regression analyses determined the association of SSS to depressive symptoms, and logistic regression determined the association of SSS to overweight and obesity, controlling for sociodemographic factors and SES.Results. Mean society ladder ranking, a subjective measure of SES, was 7.2 ؎ 1.3. Mean community ladder ranking, a measure of perceived placement in the school community, was 7.6 ؎ 1.7. Reliability of the instrument was excellent: the intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.73 for the society ladder and 0.79 for the community ladder. Adolescents had higher society ladder rankings than their mothers ( teen ‫؍‬ 7.2 ؎ 1.3 vs mom ‫؍‬ 6.8 ؎ 1.2; P ‫؍‬ .002). Older adolescents' perceptions of familial placement in society were more closely correlated with maternal subjective perceptions of placement than those of younger adolescents (Spearman's rho teens <15 years ‫؍‬ 0.31 vs Spearman's rho teens >15 years ‫؍‬ 0.45; P < .001 for both). SSS explained 9.9% of the variance in depressive symptoms and was independently associated with obesity (odds ratio society ‫؍‬ 0.89, 95% confidence interval ‫؍‬ 0.83, 0.95; odds ratio community ‫؍‬ 0.91, 95% confidence interval ‫؍‬ 0.87, 0.97). For both depressive symptoms and obesity, community ladder rankings were more strongly associated with health than were society ladder rankings in models that controlled for both domains of SSS. T he elimination of health disparities among different population segments, including differences related to socioeconomic status (SES), is the second overarching goal of Healthy People 2010. Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics also recognized and highlighted the importance of addressing SES as an causative agent in the creation of health differentials and called for additional research to understand the impact of SES across the life course. 1 The inverse, graded relationship between SES and infant, child, and adult health is well established. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] However, among adolescents, the SES gradient in health is present inconsistently. 12-15 A number of models have been proposed to explain the different patterning of SES effects on adolescent health. 2,16 Choosing the most appropriate model(s) has been...

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Stratum Identification and Consciousness

Cited by 349 publications

References 7 publications

Role of Ethnic Identity in Participatory Processes That Facilitate Psychological Empowerment Among Urban Youth

Role of Ethnic Identity in Participatory Processes That Facilitate Psychological Empowerment Among Urban Youth

A Reference Group Theory of Partisan Coalitions

Adolescents' Perceptions of Social Status: Development and Evaluation of a New Indicator

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