SOCIOL 2E06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Islamophobia, Eurocentrism, Toronto Star
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Sociology 2e06 race and ethnic group relations. For conflict theorists: education reproduces the social structure. John porter, marian porter, and bernard blishen (1982): students from higher social classes were four times more likely to continue on to university: they inherit life opportunities well before they are born. A significant body of evident [ ] demonstrates that educational institutions have been preserved and perpetuated a system of structured inequality based on race (henry and. Racially biased attitudes and practices of teachers and administrators. Hidden curricula and construction of otherness [one that automatically implies that you don"t really belong here anyway] Racial harassment and racial-based incidents [which are not dealt with or ignored] Lack of representation in curricula, administration and staffing. Rosenthal-jacobson (1968) pygmalion in the classroom : labeling of children: academic spurters and the non-spurters, self-fulfilling prophecy at work teachers had subtly an unconsciously encouraged the performance they expected to see [in the spurters] .