SOCI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Pierre Bourdieu, Intelligence Quotient, Achievement Gap In The United States
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Basic concepts: achievement gap: components, patterns, and explanations. Chapter 16: education: achievement gap- disparity on a number of educational measures between the performance of groups of students, especially groups defined by gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and socioeconmic status, cognitive and noncognitive resources. Intelligence- level of intellectual ability, particularly as measured by intelligence quotient (iq) tests. Intelligence quotient (iq)- a score attained on a test of symbolic or reasoning abilities: emotional intelligence- the ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself or others. Sociological thoeries of education: assimilation, credentialism, hidden curriculum, pierre bourdieu and cultural captial, cultural capital- the advantages that well-to-do parents usually provide their children.
