EDUC 50 Lecture 7: EDUC 50 – Week 4 Lecture Notes
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Psychology: a social contest that individuals inhabit in enduing and pervasive ways over time. A fundamental lens though which we see ourselves and others. Sociology: a group of individuals who occupy a similar position in the economic system of production. Public health: an aggregate concept that includes both resource-based and prestige-based measures, which are linked to both childhoods and adult social class position. Free (100% fpl) or reduced price meals status (185% fpl) How do poverty and ses influence learning and development: brain development and psychological state. Socioeconomic deprivation can create toxic stress: difference in early skill development, parents have differential resources to invest, education attainment. More likely to attend and graduate college: poverty is concentrated, reducing local funding for schools. Living in districts with fewer resources for schools. Higher class people can behave more selfishly and less ethically than lower income peers: rigged monopoly: randomly assign students to have advantage.
