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Guys it'd be greatly, greatly appreciated if you could complete this short questionnaire for my humble Social and Cultural Psychology Research assignment.
Either PM me or send the list of answers to my email to sungjoohan@hotmail.com. It's on class consciousness.
Thanks in advance! 
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This is a questionnaire investigating the varying degrees of class consciousness between different people. All data recorded will be confidential. This should take no more than 5-7 minutes of your time. Thank you!
Firstly, a few details about yourself:
a) Nationality:
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b) How would you best describe your political views?
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Secondly, please indicate your agreement or disagreement with the following statements by circling the appropriate number on the scale: (5= strongly agree; 4 = agree; 3= neither agree nor disagree; 2= disagree; 1= strongly disagree)
1) A distinct class structure is evident in my home country
5 4 3 2 1
2) I see myself as belonging to a certain class
5 4 3 2 1
3) A class structure is inevitable and intrinsic to any society
5 4 3 2 1
4) Striving for classlessness is a good thing
5 4 3 2 1
5) It is possible for an individual to move between classes
5 4 3 2 1
6) One should always aspire to the life of those higher up the social ladder
5 4 3 2 1
7) I feel a sense of community with those of a similar class or social standing as myself
5 4 3 2 1
8) I identify with the perceptions and values commonly affiliated with my class status
5 4 3 2 1
9) Current class structure and social hierarchy in my country privileges those higher up the social ladder
5 4 3 2 1
10) On the whole, I feel more sympathy for those belonging to a lower class than those of a higher class
5 4 3 2 1
11) A high social standing equates to happiness
5 4 3 2 1
Lastly, please answer the following open ended questions with a short paragraph.
12) How would you define yourself in terms of class (e.g. Working, Lower, Middle, Upper/Lower Middle) and what are the major factors that you would consider when determining your class status? (e.g. family, employment, material wealth)
13) Do you find that your career has ever been hindered by barriers and stigmatization of class structure? (e.g. discrimination or prejudice, pressure of meeting the expectations of belonging to a specific social class background)
Thank you again for taking the time to complete this questionnaire!
Also Im open to any critique on my questionnaire, it's only my second time doing this :O
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I sent you an email. Hope this helps!
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Thanks so much StarN!!
and to all those who replied instantly, you all have my eternal gratitude.
Keep'em coming! I find the problem with conducting research assignments in academic settings is that one resorts to simply handing them out to other students who are largely homogenous and apathetic..
<3 TL
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Are the last open ended questions for something required for the class?
Would be tough to be able to use the open ended answers as data in your results. Also when I have used open ended questions in my psych projects, it turns people off. Participants want to answer as few questions as possible in the fastest amount of time usually :p
Otherwise, very well designed questionare 
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On February 04 2010 13:55 Carthac wrote:Are the last open ended questions for something required for the class? Would be tough to be able to use the open ended answers as data in your results. Also when I have used open ended questions in my psych projects, it turns people off. Participants want to answer as few questions as possible in the fastest amount of time usually :p Otherwise, very well designed questionare
Thanks man!
The open ended questions are required yeah, for thematic analysis, which im new to. Well I'm new to all this but I agree its hard to find willing and thoughtful participants. Which is why TL is so great.
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I gave it a go. It's kind of an odd questionnaire, though. I would roughly define what you mean by "class" and "class structure", unless part of your research involves the understanding, or lack thereof, of such terms.
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Try rephrasing the "classlessness" question into something more understandable imo
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On February 04 2010 14:00 PH wrote:
I gave it a go. It's kind of an odd questionnaire, though. I would roughly define what you mean by "class" and "class structure", unless part of your research involves the understanding, or lack thereof, of such terms.
Yeah thats a part of it. Especially because depending on where you come from these concepts vary and exist in overlapping socio-economic, political, historical, psycholocial realms, so with each respondent ill take into consideration their open ended answers to get a good idea of what contributes to the complex idea of "class".
I think my general socialist leanings somewhat filter through this questionnaire in hindsight. "Classlessness" is an extreme word for sure. But i guess ill talk about the shortcomings in my analysis.
Thanks for all the fantastic help so far, I owe you all big time.
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On February 04 2010 14:14 il0seonpurpose wrote:
Done ^^
Thank you so much
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Sent you a PM with the results. Cheers
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Upper class: You wear a top hat and a monocle and have a hard time spending all your money so you invest it into companies.
Upper middle class: You wear normal clothes and can afford to pay the mortgage and still have enough for more things.
Lower middle class: You wear normal clothes and can only afford to pay the mortgage.
Lower class: You wear rags or working overalls covered in muck and have trouble paying your bills.
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Fee fi fo fum, I smell the bias of an Englishman.
Now I note ur email, but surely there is an English mind behind this topic. Plzzz there has to be.
My politics are often liberal and so i view Royals, Nobles and commons as an anachronistic concept that should have been buried in the 19th century along with the divine right of kings, hereditary parliamentary seats and belief in a flat Earth.
Do you mean, as stenole indicates, that class is income based? Therefore skill and job market dependent, a reflection of the inherent differences between human beings.
You refer to concepts such as "social standing", "social ladder", "class status" etc so I think - probably not. Does your system allow for a blithering sack of meat to be upper-class?
Sorry, I'm an Australian. (I don't believe I'm apologising for that LOL) We mostly have difficulty with non-egalitarian, rigid social structures. I suppose that makes this a "working class' nation.
So here I am answering #1 to ur 1st question and therefore n/a to most of the rest. It is a pity that the 1st question should so dominate the others. That it does reveals a bias in the questioner.
Class (caste) consciousness - not a big issue in my neck of the woods.
Education, employment and skill define social standing here, wealth accrues to those who have a nice mix of these attributes.
And it should be noted that my career has only ever been hindered by the size of my mouth and its disconnection with my brain.
And YES. I have a bias also.
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On February 05 2010 00:21 dmgdnooc wrote:
Fee fi fo fum, I smell the bias of an Englishman.
Now I note ur email, but surely there is an English mind behind this topic. Plzzz there has to be.
My politics are often liberal and so i view Royals, Nobles and commons as an anachronistic concept that should have been buried in the 19th century along with the divine right of kings, hereditary parliamentary seats and belief in a flat Earth.
Do you mean, as stenole indicates, that class is income based? Therefore skill and job market dependent, a reflection of the inherent differences between human beings.
You refer to concepts such as "social standing", "social ladder", "class status" etc so I think - probably not. Does your system allow for a blithering sack of meat to be upper-class?
Sorry, I'm an Australian. (I don't believe I'm apologising for that LOL) We mostly have difficulty with non-egalitarian, rigid social structures. I suppose that makes this a "working class' nation.
So here I am answering #1 to ur 1st question and therefore n/a to most of the rest. It is a pity that the 1st question should so dominate the others. That it does reveals a bias in the questioner.
Class (caste) consciousness - not a big issue in my neck of the woods.
Education, employment and skill define social standing here, wealth accrues to those who have a nice mix of these attributes.
And it should be noted that my career has only ever been hindered by the size of my mouth and its disconnection with my brain.
And YES. I have a bias also.
Well it's a shame you didnt complete the questionnaire because it wouldve been a really interesting item.
I'm interested in how different people from different backgrounds perceive "class" on an individual level. Quite obviously different countries have different notions, some cases it is more prevalent than others. The "british bias" in my questionnaire is pretty clear and thats something ill address in the analysis (writing about the shortcomings of an excercise is always 80% of the assignment.) The open ended questions at the end provide the opportunity to see how you might classify the term class itself.
Doing this again iterated for me how loose a term "liberal" is on a global scale. And props to all you TLers who helped out almost immediately! Thank you so much, I owe you all big time
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Just PM'd mines. Certain things I wrote about made me feel a bit like a hypocrite, but hopefully that won't be too obvious =/
Unless you'd actually like me to elaborate on that.
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OK. No more shame on me, I've pmed the questionnaire.
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