Chapter 12-Education and Religion Flashcards
Education
Social institution dedicated to formal process of transmitting culture from teachers to students
Schools teach students
Manners
Punctuality
Creativity
Discipline
Responsibility
Hidden curriculum
Teaching students to submit to authority and accept the dominant ideology
Correspondence principle
Schools tend to encourage students to embrace their social class position and thereby perpetuate the existing class structure
Credentialism
Describes an increase in the lowest level of education to enter a field
Teacher expectancy effect
Teachers expectations about a students performance can affect the students actual achievements
Tracking
Practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of their test scores and other criteria
Religion
Social institution dedicated to establishing a sense of shared identity, encouraging integration, and offering believers meaning and purpose
2 approaches to religion
What religion is
What religion does
Sacred
Encompass elements beyond everyday life that inspire respect, awe, and fear
Profane
Ordinary and commonplace
Religious beliefs
Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere
Fundamentalism
Ridged adherence to core religious doctrines
Religious rights
Practices required/expected of members of a faith
Religious experience
Feeling/perception of being in direct contact with ultimate reality