SOSA 2002X Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Taylor Report, Racialization, Reasonable Accommodation
2 Dec 2014
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Job ceiling": lower aspiration to schooling among youths in marginalized position. Hypothesis: aboriginal youths" aspirations are lower than those for non-aboriginal youth. Theory of oppositional culture (j. ogbu) followed up by james ainsworth-darrell & doug. Downey (1998) assessing the oppositional culture explanation for racial/ethnic differences in school performance . Job ceiling internalized perception of inequality leads to lower aspiration to schooling, and resistance to schooling. H1: marginalized (black) youths perceive fewer returns to education and more limited occupational opportunities than other students. H2: marginalized youths exhibit more resistance to schooling than other youth. H3: highly achieving marginalized students experience negative sanction from peers. Resistance to schooling gap in school performance. H4: gap in school performance among marginalized youth is accounted for by their resistance (how negative an attitude the black kids had about teachers, school, etc. ) This is how researchers propose their research the framework.
