Terms To Remember Ch 7

Question 1

Cultural capital

Answer 1

Refers to one’s knowledge of established and exalted cultural activities
(Can sometimes hinder its a double edge sword)

Question 2

Whiteness

Answer 2

White racial domination normalized

Question 3

Eurocentric curriculum

Answer 3

The curriculum making European history and culture central to American history

Question 4

Freedom

Answer 4

To really be free you need to know yourself, Culture and history, and have self mastery. Education is central to freedom

Question 5

Social captial

Answer 5

Refers to who you know and the resources available through that network

Question 6

Familism

Answer 6

This is a type of social capital referring to your reliance on and relationship with your family

Question 7

Tracking

Answer 7

The way schools track students “according” to their ability
Ap/honors, college preperstion, vocational, remedial

Question 8

Oppositional culture

Answer 8

Idea presented by John ogbu that nonwhites resist certain white culture things to avoid feeling stereotyped. Or that they are giving up who they are.

Question 9

Stereotype threat

Answer 9

Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson studied this threat that makes people afraid to conform to their stereotypes

Question 10

Burden to succeed

Answer 10

Asian Americans are considered the model minority and feel pressure to succeed