SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stereotype Threat, Frisking, Social Psychology
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Practical focus - to better understand processes that hinder groups" academic achievement. Theoretical focus - to determine how societal stereotypes about groups can influence: To sustain school success one must be identified with school achievement. School needs to be a part of one"s self-definition: a personal identity to which one is self-evaluatively accountable. The access you have to educational resources, quality can affect educational performance. Such access is rooted in your socioeconomic status. Limits on educational access imposed by ses disadvantage, segregating social practices, restrictive cultural orientations, historical limitations and their subsequent effects. If you overcome these limitations you may still have a barrier to overcome. Stereotype threat social psychological threat that arises when one is in a situation or doing something for which a negative stereotype about one"s group applies. Can generally affect the members of any group about whom a negative. A threat in the air (p. 614) stereotype exists.
