SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Psychology
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Lewis argued that by the time slum children are age six or seven they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes of their subculture. Thereafter they are psychologically unready to take full advantage of changing conditions or improving opportunities that may develop in their life time . Social psychologist morton deutch argued, for example, that. We know that children from underprivileged environments tend to come to school with qualitatively different preparation for the demands both of the learning process and the behavior equipments of the classroom. There are various differences in the kinds of socialization experiences these children have, as contrasted with the middle class child. The culture of their environment is a different one from the culture that has molded the school, its educational techniques and theories. Structural explanations of the reproduction of the class system reject the notion that the best way to understand poverty is to look at cultural attributes of the poor.
