Education

Question 1

Schools and Homogenizing

Answer 1

• Schools teach people communication, coordination, and economic productivity
• Homogeneity by teaching all the students the same curriculum

Question 2

What is Uniform Socialization

Answer 2

Centralized and rationalized system to create uniformity and standardization
- Replaced religion and family as sources of knowledge

Question 3

2 Consequences of rising levels of education

Answer 3

1. Educational achievement
2. Education Attainment

Question 4

What is Educational Achievement?

Answer 4

Grades reflect an individuals acquired knowledge and skill

Question 5

What is Education Attainment

Answer 5

Numbers of years of schooling completed for certificates and degrees earned

Question 6

Advantages of Education

Answer 6

Higher education is effective at securing more employment and higher earnings

Question 7

4 reasons for the rise of mass schooling

Answer 7

1. Printing Press
2. Protestants were encouraged to read scripts regularly
3. Democracy
4. Industrialization

Question 8

Functionalist take on Education

Answer 8

1. Manifest Functions
2. Latent Functions
3. Common school standards
4. National Solidarity

Question 9

What is the Manifest Functions of Education?

Answer 9

The logic of Industrialism
- Schools make industrialism possible
- Schools create social solidarity through cultural homogeneity
- Schools transmit shared knowledge and culture

Question 10

What are the 4 Latent Functions of Education?

Answer 10

1. Creates youth culture
2. Perpetuates assortative mating
3. Custodial and surveillance system for children
4. Create a way to maintain wage levels

Question 11

Conflict Theorist take on Education

Answer 11

1. Meritocracy
2. economic Barriers to education
3. Social Exclusion
4. Subjugated Knowledge
5. Credential Inflation
6. Cultural Capital and Control

Question 12

What is Meritocracy?

Answer 12

Social hierarchy where rank corresponds to individual capacities

Question 13

What are economic barriers to higher educations?

Answer 13

• Higher education in Canada requires students and their families to carry significant financial burdens
• social class origin strongly affects how much education people attain

Question 14

What is social exclusion?

Answer 14

Creation of barriers so that certain social opportunities and positions are not open to all
- poor people cant go to college

Question 15

What is Subjugated knowledge?

Answer 15

Description and explanation of events that dominant groups selectively devalue or ignore
- disregarding knowledge from minority groups

Question 16

What is Credential Inflation?

Answer 16

Qualifying for specific jobs require more and more certificates and degrees
- fueled professionalization

Question 17

What is cultural capital control?

Answer 17

Learning skills increase the chance of securing a superior job and perpetuates pedagogic violence
- Punishments to discourage deviation

Question 18

Symbolic Interactionist take on Education

Answer 18

1. Reproduction of the System
2. Hidden Curriculum
3. Concerted Cultivation
4. Natural Growth
5. Testing and Tracking
6. Self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 19

What is Reproduction of the Existing Stratification System

Answer 19

Ensures that offspring enter the same rank/class as their parents
- class advantage transmission

Question 20

What is the hidden curriculum?

Answer 20

Schools teaches obedience to authority and conformity to cultural norms

Question 21

What is Concerted Cultivation?

Answer 21

Directs children to activities that prepare them for success in school
- Middle-class parenting style

Question 22

What is Natural Growth?

Answer 22

Leave children on their own, except when parents demand obedience
- Lower-class parenting style

Question 23

What is Testing and Tracking?

Answer 23

IQ tests sort students and stratifies classrooms based on assessment performance

Question 24

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Answer 24

The expectation that helps to cause what it predicts

Question 25

2 prospects and challenges for education in Canada

Answer 25

1. Gender Difference
   - women have more years of schooling but earn less than men
2. Participation of Indigenous peoples
   - low achievement success from indigenous people