Young children's understanding of social class groups: family and community demographic variation
Abigail Jaglowski
This study examined 5- to 6-year-old children's categorizations of and behaviors toward peers from different social classes. Participants were 193 children (Mage = 5.45 years, SD = 0.27; 102 boys, 91 girls) recruited from a diverse U.S. metropolitan area. Children completed a matching task using material cues (houses, cars, backpacks) and one-shot, third-party allocation and punishment tasks. Children successfully identified social class groups at a rate higher than chance and showed higher accu