CAS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Class Discrimination, Peer Group, Social Class
26 Jun 2019
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Ch6 : societal influences on children and families. The family: family is first socialization agent, socialization patterns, family is the microsystem. Laws: customs, relatives, neighbors, religion, community networks, school, media and technology. Four major socializing agents: family, school, peer group, media/technology. Influences on socialization: subcultures and networks, social class, kinship, ethnic group, primary focus, family status. Issues of bias: classist assumptions, bias is everywhere, bias hurts everybody, areas of privilege. Classism: social class as a socialization agent, for some hard to see, socioeconomic levels, targets for classism. Racism: those who have experienced racism don"t have to read about it to understand it, stereotypes, discrimination, racist attitudes, affects socialization. Schools as socializing agents: school expectations, behaviors/mismatches, anti-bias education, tools of the mind, tracking. Responding to diversity: types of response, own culture viewed as normal, color-blind. Ignore differences: tourist approach, ethnic studies approach, commonalities vs. celebrations, anti-bias curriculum, attitude of respect, true integration and equity.
