Chapter 12 Flashcards
Education
why is the social institution of education important
it is important because of the multiple influences it has on socialization, status formation, social order and economic productivity
Malacrida’s 3 ways in which of different intellectual abilities were sorted out of the mainstream:
- Truancy laws
- Tests and curriculum
- Health testing
Human Capital Thesis:
Industrial societies invest in schools to enhance the knowledge and skills of their workers (used to justify low incomes of marginalized groups)
The Assimilation model:
- Education in Canada has been based on a monocultural model that emphasizes assimilation into the dominant culture
- this model fails to recognize racial bias and discrimination inside and outside the school system
3 fundamental assumptions of multicultural education:
- Learning about one’s culture would improve educational achievement
- Learning about one’s culture would promote equality of opportunity
- Learning about other cultures would reduce prejudice and discrimination
Anti-racism and anti-oppression education:
- seeks to expose and eliminate the institutional and individual barriers to equity
- emerged in the 1980s and seeks to change racist and oppressive policies and practices
The hidden curriculum
- consists of the unstated or unofficial goals of the education system
- Robert Merton’s structural functionalist theory understands the hidden curriculum as performing the latent function by teaching the norms of society
Major assumptions of Sociological theories of Education:
Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionism
Conflict Theory (sociological theories of Education)
- Education promotes social inequality through the use of tracking and standardized testing and the impact of its “hidden curriculum”
Discipline
refers to controlled behaviour, not to the punishment administered (ex. for speaking out of turn or passing notes in class)
- Discipline is a key part of the hidden curriculum
The docile body:
- Termed by Michel Foucault
- conditioned through 3 forms of disciplinary control:
- Hierarchical observation
- Normalizing judgment
- The examination
cultural reproduction theory
- involves the legitimization of inequality
- an important element of cultural reproduction is the reproduction of social structure
- 4 different types of schools
Anyon’s 4 categories of daily activities for each type of school
- Working class school
- Middle class school
- Affluent professional school
- Executive elite school
Working class school (Anyon’s 4 categories of daily activities)
Copying down and memorizing the instructor’s notes from the board
Middle class school (Anyon’s 4 categories of daily activities)
Reading the textbook and finding the right answer
