Author Archives: chyamada

Conversations on class: making meanings out of money on Vassar’s campus

MAY 2014

Many questions remain about what class means to a large body of students at Vassar.  I seek to understand the Vassar experiences in which relations of socioeconomic class structure make themselves evident, or contrarily why some students might not find themselves interacting on classist means.  Are Vassar students, or any college-aged students, aware of dynamics of class on and off campus, and are such groups responsible for acknowledging class?  In perpetuating these conversations I have come to understand the challenges of sociological analyses of large-scale interpersonal phenomena such as class, and have gained insight to the strategies in understanding intrapersonal sentiments in relationship to societal issues.  This project has a little of both.  Please enjoy.

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