Education

Question 1

Process through which academic, social, and cultural ideas and tools, general and specific, are developed

Answer 1

Education

Question 2

Nonacademic and less overt socialization functions of schooling

Answer 2

Hidden curriculum

Question 3

Information, knowledge of people, and connections that help individuals enter, gain power in, or otherwise leverage social networks

Answer 3

Social capital

Question 4

Way of dividing students into different classes by ability or future plans

Answer 4

Tracking

Question 5

Overemphasis on credentials for signaling social status or qualifications for a job

Answer 5

Credentialism

Question 6

Set of policies that grant preferential treatment to a number of particular subgroups within the population

Answer 6

Affirmative action

Question 7

Individual’s position in a stratified social order

Answer 7

Social class/socioeconomic status

Question 8

Symbolic and interactional resources that people use to their advantage in various situations; three types- embodied, objectified, and institutionalized

Answer 8

Cultural capital

Question 9

When members of a negatively stereotyped group are placed in a situation where they fear they may confirm those stereotypes

Answer 9

Stereotype threat

Question 10

Hypothesis stating that parental resources are finite and that each additional child gets a smaller amount of them

Answer 10

Resource dilution model