SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Culture Ii, High Culture, Symbolic Interactionism
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Research focused on symbolic interactionism finds stereotypes. Negative stereotypes impact children"s learning and can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Self-fulfilling prophecy: if you think something will happen it will happen. We are all social beings and we tend to attach meanings to things. Some teachers attach meanings to things and make assumptions based on gender, race and class and these perceptions/meanings attached sometimes affect how students are treated by teachers and can impact the students. This is all about the meanings we attach to things and the kinds of interactions we have and how they can impact our life. Green line = bachelor"s degree (men and women grouped together. By 2004 about 1/3 of population earned bachelor"s degree. Mostly women have entered university for bachelor"s degree in that time period. Ever since that period in 1980"s, women have earned bas. It seems like women have come a long way and we should focus on male participation.
