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Moghaddam, Fathali M.; Perreault, Stephane – Journal of Social Psychology, 1992
Presents results of a study of predictions from major intergroup theories concerning factors involved in individual and collective mobility strategies of minority group members. Reports support for predictions of social identity theory, relative deprivation theory, and resource mobilization theory. Found that less talented minority group members…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Immigrants
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Elliott, Brian; MacLennan, David – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1994
Contends that conservative critiques of education and proposals for reform are similar in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. Describes and analyzes New Right criticisms of education and conservative efforts to promote business values and market-based economics. (CFR)
Descriptors: Conservatism, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
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Lee, Jo-Anne; De Finney, Sandrina – Child & Youth Services, 2004
This chapter examines the use of popular theatre as a methodology to investigate racialized minority girls' processes of identity formation and experiences of exclusion and belonging in predominantly white, urban Victoria, B.C., Canada. The article draws on transnational feminist frameworks that emphasize intersectionality and locality to…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Theater Arts, Minority Groups
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Damji, Tasleem; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
Examines the effect of situational variations of ethnic identity and their relationship to measures of psychosocial adjustment. Among French Canadian university students, English-speaking students who identified strongly with their first language group but exhibited a high degree of inter-situational variation experienced more stress, depression,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Analysis of Variance, Cultural Interrelationships, Depression (Psychology)