Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of Diversity over Time

Autor/inn/en	Dingel, Molly J.; Sage, Starr K.
Titel	Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of Diversity over Time
Quelle	In: Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 13 (2020) 2, S.120-132 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-8926
DOI	10.1037/dhe0000119
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Student Attitudes; Consciousness Raising; Program Effectiveness; Racial Bias; Attitude Change; Diversity; Race; Gender Issues; Religion; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Socioeconomic Status; Sexual Orientation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülerverhalten; Bewusstseinsbildung; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Rasse; Abstammung; Geschlechterfrage; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Sexuelle Orientierung
Abstract	The United States is an increasingly diverse nation. It is therefore critical to cultivate an appreciation of racial difference. To bridge lay understandings with the reality of racial inequality, we must understand the ways citizens think about diversity and contextualize these within our current racial structure. In this paper, we interviewed 32 first- and second-year college students about their perceptions of diversity and, in the context of diversity, how well they fit in at their university. We reinterviewed 18 of these students 2 years later, when they were in their third or fourth year in college. We found that these students classified a wide range of traits under the concept of diversity. With respect to race, students exhibited a high degree of what Eduardo Bonilla-Silva describes as color-blind racism. Beyond that, we found that although students' attitudes about diversity were quite stable over these 2 years, there were interesting changes. Namely, students' introduction of learning styles and career goals in the second interviews reflects both the depth with which individuals' concepts of difference and diversity are deeply embedded in their social context, and that color-blind ideology is flexible enough to incorporate these context-specific frameworks. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01