Education Flashcards
Schools and Homogenizing
- Schools teach people communication, coordination, and economic productivity
- Homogeneity by teaching all the students the same curriculum
What is Uniform Socialization
Centralized and rationalized system to create uniformity and standardization
- Replaced religion and family as sources of knowledge
2 Consequences of rising levels of education
- Educational achievement
- Education Attainment
What is Educational Achievement?
Grades reflect an individuals acquired knowledge and skill
What is Education Attainment
Numbers of years of schooling completed for certificates and degrees earned
Advantages of Education
Higher education is effective at securing more employment and higher earnings
4 reasons for the rise of mass schooling
- Printing Press
- Protestants were encouraged to read scripts regularly
- Democracy
- Industrialization
Functionalist take on Education
- Manifest Functions
- Latent Functions
- Common school standards
- National Solidarity
What is the Manifest Functions of Education?
The logic of Industrialism
- Schools make industrialism possible
- Schools create social solidarity through cultural homogeneity
- Schools transmit shared knowledge and culture
What are the 4 Latent Functions of Education?
- Creates youth culture
- Perpetuates assortative mating
- Custodial and surveillance system for children
- Create a way to maintain wage levels
Conflict Theorist take on Education
- Meritocracy
- economic Barriers to education
- Social Exclusion
- Subjugated Knowledge
- Credential Inflation
- Cultural Capital and Control
What is Meritocracy?
Social hierarchy where rank corresponds to individual capacities
What are economic barriers to higher educations?
- Higher education in Canada requires students and their families to carry significant financial burdens
- social class origin strongly affects how much education people attain
What is social exclusion?
Creation of barriers so that certain social opportunities and positions are not open to all
- poor people cant go to college
What is Subjugated knowledge?
Description and explanation of events that dominant groups selectively devalue or ignore
- disregarding knowledge from minority groups
What is Credential Inflation?
Qualifying for specific jobs require more and more certificates and degrees
- fueled professionalization
What is cultural capital control?
Learning skills increase the chance of securing a superior job and perpetuates pedagogic violence
- Punishments to discourage deviation
Symbolic Interactionist take on Education
- Reproduction of the System
- Hidden Curriculum
- Concerted Cultivation
- Natural Growth
- Testing and Tracking
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
What is Reproduction of the Existing Stratification System
Ensures that offspring enter the same rank/class as their parents
- class advantage transmission
What is the hidden curriculum?
Schools teaches obedience to authority and conformity to cultural norms
What is Concerted Cultivation?
Directs children to activities that prepare them for success in school
- Middle-class parenting style
What is Natural Growth?
Leave children on their own, except when parents demand obedience
- Lower-class parenting style
What is Testing and Tracking?
IQ tests sort students and stratifies classrooms based on assessment performance
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
The expectation that helps to cause what it predicts
