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Becoming More Open to Social Identity-Based Difference: Understanding the Meaning College Students Make of this Movement
- Journal of College Student Development
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 52, Number 4, July/August 2011
- pp. 377-395
- 10.1353/csd.2011.0055
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This qualitative study explores college students' perceived shift to becoming more open to social identity-based difference. Using phenomenological methods, the study highlights the voices of three college students to illuminate findings that describe personal and institutional factors that support such a shift, the impact of the shift on individual students, and participants' descriptions of the shift as continuous and recursive. Implications for ways that policy, practice, and research can support a shift towards openness to diversity are discussed.