Social Class and the Extracurriculum
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Will Barratt
Abstract
Social class is a powerful and often unrecognized influence on student participation in the extracurriculum. Spontaneous student-created extracurricular experiences depend on students affiliating and interacting with each other; student social class is a powerful influence on student affiliations. Students tend to exercise consciousness of kind- and self-select to interact with culturally, ethnically, gender-, and class-similar members of the campus community. However, planners of extracurricular experiences typically neglect student social class in planning, promoting, or conducting an experience as well as neglecting social class as a topic for planned experiences. This article explores social class as both a personal characteristic and as a feature of the campus environment. Social class affects how members of the campus community perceive and participate in campus curricular and extracurricular activities and how extracurricular experiences are designed.
©2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
Abstract
Social class is a powerful and often unrecognized influence on student participation in the extracurriculum. Spontaneous student-created extracurricular experiences depend on students affiliating and interacting with each other; student social class is a powerful influence on student affiliations. Students tend to exercise consciousness of kind- and self-select to interact with culturally, ethnically, gender-, and class-similar members of the campus community. However, planners of extracurricular experiences typically neglect student social class in planning, promoting, or conducting an experience as well as neglecting social class as a topic for planned experiences. This article explores social class as both a personal characteristic and as a feature of the campus environment. Social class affects how members of the campus community perceive and participate in campus curricular and extracurricular activities and how extracurricular experiences are designed.
©2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- From the Editors
- Reinventing the Extracurriculum: The Educational and Moral Purposes of College Student Activities and Experiences
- Invited Featured Article
- Grasping the Big Sociological Picture Shaping the Moral Lives of College Students Today
- Connecting and Collaborating to Further the Intellectual, Civic, and Moral Purposes of Higher Education
- Social Class and the Extracurriculum
- Peer Reviewed Article
- Soul-Building: Students' Perspectives on Meaning, Purpose, and the College Experience
- Opinions and Perspectives
- Carefully, Thoughtfully Exploring the "I" in Reciprocity: Practitioner Reflections in Striving for Self-Authoring Student-Citizens
- Best Practices
- The E.P.I.C. Journey Sanctioning Model
- Ethical Issues on Campus
- Discussing Poverty as a Student Issue: Making a Case for Student Human Services
- New Scholars and Scholarship
- Community-Based Research and Student Development: An Interview with Trisha Thorme
- Civic Engagement on Campus
- The Second Student-Run Homeless Shelter
- International Perspectives
- Building Capacity Through International Student Affairs Exchange
- What They're Reading
- Understanding College Students' Spiritual Identities: Different Faiths, Varied Worldviews
- Students' Reflections on Moral Conflicts in College
- La Chispa De Las Honduraños: Imperialism and Human Experience
