Social Class and Test Performance: From Stereotype Threat to Symbolic Violence and Vice Versa

Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Croizet, Jean Claude ^a   Millet, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Intelligence; Poverty; Power; Socioeconomic status; Stereotype threat; Symbolic violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880987362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732449.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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