Promotes values, creates images of "normalcy" and deviance, and are produced by people including their bias and interest.
What is Media?
100
Children's belief that 'things' will gain them 'belonging'
What is economy of dignity?
100
Grouping students by perceptions of ability. Research shows that this often intersects with stereotypes and exacerbates inequalities.
What is tracking?
100
Psychologoical burden that impacts perfomance and is based on assumptions about a race, gender, etc. May negatively or positively affect performance.
What is stereotype threat?
100
Symbolic resources and skills that are useful in certain situations. Everyone has it but there is wide variations. Transmitted to children from parents.
What is cultural capital?
200
Code created for public relations by production companies.
What is The Production Code of Ethics (1930)?
200
A narrative that wealthier parents use to describe why they would not buy something for their children.
What is symbolic deprivation?
200
Predictive of first year GPA for white students; however, high school GPA is a better predictor. Researchers have found that this test is predictive of family income.
What is the SAT?
200
This group has been shown to be falling behind in schools.
Who are low income boys?
200
Media is this, or, it is something that socializes us and allows us to understand the society in which we live.
What is an agent of socialization?
300
This group owns 97% of TV networks.
Who are white people?
300
When lower-income individuals talk about how they save to buy their children something that they want.
What is symbolic indulgence?
300
Is not a quota system! Benefits white women more than any other group. Decided on by universities who seek to diversify campuses.
What is affirmative action?
300
This group of people are most likely to get into their college of choice.
Who are whites?
300
The cultural capital and stereotypes that this group in particular is affected by primes them for failure in school, despite their equal desire to attend college much like their peers.
Who are African-Americans?
400
An act by the media that enables us to believe certain widely held beliefs about groups of people
What are reinforcing stereotypes?
400
From your reading...People will stay in undesireable work to purchase nice things that others will see; essentially showing off.
What is conspicuous consumption?
400
Students who suffer from this social problem enter high school 3.3 grade levels behind and graduate 4.3 grade levels behind.
What is low SES?
400
The cultural capital obtained by this group enables them to succeed well in school.
Who are upper middle class children?
400
This type of research often involves talking with the people you are studying.
What is Qualitative research?
500
In a video we watched in class, we see that women are objectified and encouraged to strive toward an impossible standard of beauty through this.
Who are women in advertising?
500
Thanks to this fast food chain, hamburgers and fries are now a recognized feature of Hong Kong's lunch scene.
What is McDonalds?
500
This refers to what is not offically included in education and is helped by having proper cultural capital.
What is the hidden curriculum?
500
These people are more likely to succeed in what are considered "good jobs" that typically involve manual labor and are unionized.
Who are men without college degrees?
500
This group of college grads are likely to earn less in almost every field.