Chapter 12: Education

Question 1

postsecondary education

Answer 1

Question 2

educational attainment

Answer 2

Question 3

Literacy

Answer 3

This measure indicates the ability to engage with written texts. Scores range from 0 to 500.

Question 4

Numeracy

Answer 4

This measure indicates the ability to engage with mathematical information. Scores range from 0 to 500.

Question 5

Participation in Education

Answer 5

This measure indicates the percentage of Canadians enrolled in any type of educational institution (elementary, high school, college, or university).

Question 6

Debt to any source

Answer 6

Average monetary debt measured in dollars for graduates of a college/uni program.

Question 7

Hidden curriculum

Answer 7

The lessons about expectations for behaviour that tend to be more informal or unwritten.

Question 8

Those who regard the hidden curriculum as positive are generally echoing the themes from —-

Answer 8

structural functionalists

Question 9

The hidden curriculum is delivered through —- and is designed to instruct on —-.

Answer 9

1. socialization
2. shared norms and values

Question 10

—– in particular look at the hidden curriculum as one of the mechanisms for reproducing social class.

Answer 10

Conflict theorists

Question 11

Correspondence principle

Answer 11

Question 12

Educational achievement

Answer 12

Question 13

cultural capital

Answer 13

cultural resources like knowledge, traits, preferences, and behaviours that act as status cues for high culture

Question 14

Pierre Bourdieu and cultural capital

Answer 14

developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who argued that cultural capital includes manners, accent, educational qualifications, books, and exposure to elements of high brow culture like the opera, ballet, art galleries, and museums (

Question 15

——- is the most predictive of a child’s educational attainment

Answer 15

Parental education