Study Guide for Midterm 4
SOC 206
Desmond and Emirbayer: 7. Education
- Compare individuals with more education to those with little education.
- What did Christian missionaries do to get American Indian parents to send their children to boarding schools?
- Describe the boarding schools run by either Christian missionaries or the federal government for American Indian children.
- Why did whites work to deny blacks educational opportunities?
- Know about Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, and the Little Rock Nine
- What concepts could still be found within state-approved textbooks as late as the 1950s?
- Know examples of Eurocentric historical accounts of the United States.
- What historical events are usually glossed over by Eurocentric historians and is not as well known among the majority of U.S. citizens?
- What are examples of cultural capital within the dominant culture of the United States?
- What are examples of the “hidden curriculum”?
- Which group values interdependence, family support, and obligations more than other racial or ethnic groups?
- Which groups are considered involuntary minorities in the United States?
- In Illinois, what percent of schools with very high minority populations (more than 90 percent) placed in the bottom quartile for teacher quality?
- What has happened to the percentage of black students in majority white southern schools from 1954 to 1990 and then from 1990 to 2011?
- The average white student attends a school that is majority-white. The average black student attends a school that is majority-black. The average Hispanic student attends a school that is majority-Hispanic
- stereotype threat
- Between 1990 and 2013, the white-black college graduation gap increased from 13 percentage points to 20, and the white-Hispanic graduation gap increased from 18 percentage points to 25.
- Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders are behind Korean, Japanese, and Chinese peers in all academic respects
- It is far more likely that a qualified white or Asian applicant will be rejected from a top university because her or his spot was reserved for an academically mediocre but socially privileged white applicant with ties to the university (than because of affirmative action).