SOC 0829 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: John Ogbu, Stereotype Threat, Claude Steele
21 Feb 2017
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The source of the river (2003: shape of river by bowen and bok. Theories of educational underperformance: the theory of capital deficiency: It is a matter of fitting in and belonging : theory of oppositional culture: Chinese, punjabi, indians came to this country more or less freely. Involuntary minorities: african americans, mexican, puerto ricans, and. Perceive the dominant us society in adversarial terms. Also among mexican an oppositional culture is observed chicanos or cholos that is said to undermined educational progress: the theory of stereotype threat: An unconscious fear of living up to a negative stereotype. Long exposure to this stereotype threat will eventually lead to disidentification. Not the same as devaluing: theory of peer influence: Two broad categories: contextual peer effects and proximate peer effects. Contextual: the social, demographic, or economic composition of a student body. Proximate: influence of specific people in a friendship circle: attachment theory: Examines the institutions capacity to retain the students.
