Culture and Diversity

Culture

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Knowledge, values, attitudes, and traditions that guide the behavior of a group of people and allow them to solve the problems of living in their environment

Socioeconomic status (SES)

Relative standing in society based on income, background, and prestige

Resistance culture

Group values and beliefs about refusing to adopt the behaviors and attitudes of the majority culture

Assignment to different classes and academic experiences based on achievement
- determined the kind of classes students would take in school and their careers

A group of people who have been socially disadvantaged
-a group that experiences a narrowing of opportunities

Prejudgment or irrational generalization about an entire category of people
-racism, liking someone cause they have blue eyes, not liking someone cause they don't share the same religion

Schema that organizes knowledge or perception about a catergory
-racial remarks, sexual remarks, and gender remarks.
-making judgement without knowing the person

Treating or acting unfairly toward particular categories of people
-Harassment

Stereotype threat

The extra emotional and cognitive burden that your performance in an academic situation might confirm a stereotype that others hold about you
-White perform worse on math tests when they think they are competing with asians

Gender identity

The sense of self as male or female as well as the beliefs one has about gender roles and attributes
-a transgender person may have been assigned male at birth, but their gender identity is a female