Editing Class discrimination (section)

== Institutional versus personal classism ==
The term classism can refer to personal prejudice (an individual's inclination to judge or treat others negatively based on their own rigid beliefs or emotions rather than objective evidence or critical reflection<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-06-23 |title=Psychology Helps Explain Why People Are Prejudiced - Center for Public Interest Communications |url=https://realgoodcenter.jou.ufl.edu/researchinsights/why-people-are-prejudiced/ |access-date=2024-11-03 |language=en-US}}</ref>) against lower classes as well as to institutional classism (the ways in which intentional and unintentional classism is manifest in the various institutions of our society<ref>{{Citation |title=Congressional Hunger Center |date=2006 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of World Poverty |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412939607.n139 |access-date=2024-11-03 |place=2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks California 91320 United States |publisher=Sage Publications, Inc. |doi=10.4135/9781412939607.n139 |isbn=978-1-4129-1807-7}}</ref>). Similarly, the term [[racism]] can refer either strictly to personal prejudice or to [[institutional racism]]. The latter has been defined as "the ways in which conscious or unconscious classism is manifest in the various institutions of our society".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gustavus.edu/reslife/documents/Classism.doc|title=Classism Definitions|website=gustavus.edu|access-date=18 March 2018|archive-date=13 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313231751/https://gustavus.edu/reslife/documents/Classism.doc|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As with social classes, the difference in social status between people determines how they behave toward each other and the prejudices they likely hold toward each other. People of higher status do not generally mix with lower-status people and often are able to control other people's activities by influencing laws and social standards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/social-class-prejudice|title=Social Class Prejudice|website=Encyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-01-08}}</ref>

The term "interpersonal" is sometimes used in place of "personal" as in "institutional classism (versus) interpersonal classism"<ref>{{citation|last1=Langhout|first1=Regina Day|title=Assessing Classism in Academic Settings|date=Winter 2007|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/review_of_higher_education/v030/30.2langhout.html|last2=Rosselli|last3=Feinstein|first2=Francine|first3=Jonathan|journal=The Review of Higher Education|volume=30|issue=2|pages=145–184|doi=10.1353/rhe.2006.0073|s2cid=144691197}}</ref> and terms such as "attitude" or "attitudinal" may replace "interpersonal" as contrasting with institutional classism as in the Association of Magazine Media's definition of classism as "any attitude or institutional practice which subordinates people due to income, occupation, education and/or their economic condition".<ref>[http://www.magazine.org/diversity/managing/defining/8478.aspx "Glossary"].{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309015508/http://www.magazine.org/diversity/managing/defining/8478.aspx|date=9 March 2012}}</ref>

Classism is also sometimes broken down into more than two categories as in "personal, institutional and cultural" classism.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Adams|editor1-first=Maurianne|editor2-last=Bell|editor2-first=Lee Anne|editor3-last=Griffin|editor3-first=Pat|title=Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice|edition=2nd|publisher=Routledge|year=2007|page=317|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OI-5SlHR9PMC|isbn=978-0-415-95199-9}}</ref> It is common knowledge in sociolinguistics that meta-social language abounds in lower registers, thus the slang for various classes or racial castes.