Abstract The culture cycle details how cultural ideas, institutional practices, daily interactions, and psychological processes mutually reinforce (and disrupt) social class inequities in U.S. education contexts. Attending to how the intersections of classism, racism, and sexism shape culture cycle processes unearths nuances in social class inequities and their consequences. In this paper, we argue that by taking a critical race perspective to the culture cycle framework, or a critical race culture cycle lens for short, we can more fully interrogate interrelated power structures in educational contexts that dynamically influence each other over time to shape students’ unique psychological realities of marginalization and, importantly, their acts of resistance. To build our argument, we first describe the utility of a culture cycle study of social class inequities. We then illustrate how a critical race culture cycle lens sharpens psychological investigations of these inequities. We offer cultural mismatch theory as an illustrative example for our argument and showcase how such a lens provokes a different set of research questions that attend to power, intersectionality, and resistance. Finally, we discuss how a critical race culture cycle lens offers new opportunities for theory and research in the study of social class inequities more broadly.

Ibette Valle

Rebecca Covarrubias

Journal of Social Issues

Published for The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), the Journal of Social Issues (JSI) brings behavioral and social science theory, empirical evidence, and practice to bear on human and social problems. Each issue of the journal focuses on a single topic - recent issues, for example, have addressed poverty, housing and health; privacy as a social and psychological concern; youth and violence; and the impact of social class on education.

The Journal of Social Issues (JSI), published by The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), aims to apply behavioral and social science theory, empirical evidence, and practical applications to human and social problems. Each issue of the journal focuses on a specific topic; recent issues have addressed themes such as poverty, housing and health; privacy as a social and psychological concern; youth and violence; and the impact of social class on education.

《社会问题杂志》（Journal of Social Issues）是由社会心理学研究协会（SPSSI）出版的期刊，旨在将行为和社会科学理论、实证证据与实践应用于人类和社会问题的研究。每期杂志聚焦于一个特定主题，近期的主题包括贫困、住房与健康；隐私作为社会与心理问题的关注点；青少年与暴力；以及社会阶层对教育的影响等。

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A critical race culture cycle study of class inequities in higher education

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