Chapter 14

Question 1

What is the process of social selection in which class advantage and social status and linked to the possession of academic qualifications?

Answer 1

Credentialism

Question 2

What is Pierre Bourdieu’s term for peoples social assets, including their values, beliefs, attitudes, and competencies in language and culture?

Answer 2

Cultural capital

Question 3

What is the process by which children and recent immigrants become acquainted with the dominant cultural beliefs, values, norms, and accumulated knowledge of a society?

Answer 3

Cultural Transmission

Question 4

What is the social institution responsible for the systematic transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure?

Answer 4

education

Question 5

What is the learning that takes place withing an academic setting, such as a school, that has a planned instructional process and teachers who convey specific knowledge, skills and thinking processes to students?

Answer 5

Formal Education

Question 6

What is the transmission of cultural values and attitudes, such as conformity and obedience to authority, through implied demands found in the rules, routines, and regulations of schools?

Answer 6

Hidden Curriculum

Question 7

What is learning that occurs in a spontaneous, unplanned way?

Answer 7

Informal Education

Question 8

What is free, public schooling for wide segments of a nations population?

Answer 8

Mass education

Question 9

What is the assignment of students to specific courses and educational programs based on their test scores, previous grades,or both?

Answer 9

Tracking