SOC 0833 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: John Ogbu, Attachment Theory, Claude Steele
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The source of the river (2003) - musumunu cowrote (shape of the river by bowen and bok) Theories of educational underperformance: theory of capital de ciency. Is a matter of tting in and belonging : theory of oppositional culture. Came into this country more or less freely. Involuntary minorities perceive the dominant u. s. 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 (psychologist claude steele) An unconscious fear of living up to a negative stereotype . long exposure to this stereotype threat will eventually lead to disidenti cation. Theory of peer in uence peers can in uence an outcome two broad categories: contextual or proximate. Contextual the social, demographic, or economic composition of a student body. Proximate in uence of speci c people in a friendship circle.
