education

Question 1

Marxism

Answer 1

a political, social, and economic philosophy derived from the work of Karl Marx. It views society as a struggle between social classes and asserts that capitalism is inherently exploitative of the W/C

Question 2

False class consciousness

Answer 2

designate the way in which material, ideological, and instrumental processes in capitalism society mislead members of the proletariat and other classes.

Question 3

Habitus

Answer 3

refers to the physical embodiment of cultural capital, to deeply ingrained habits, skills, and dispositions that we possess due to our life experiences.

Question 4

cultural capital

Answer 4

consists of the social assets of a person that promote social stability in a stratified society. e.g. education, style of speech, dress sense etc.

Question 5

Hegemony

Answer 5

the dominance in society of the ruling class’s set of ideas over others, and acceptance of and consent to them by the rest of society.

Question 6

policy

Answer 6

a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual.

Question 7

micro level

Answer 7

involves the study of people at a more interpersonal level, as in face-to-face interactions.

Question 8

Labelling theory

Answer 8

how the self-identity and behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to describe or classify them. It is associated with the concepts of self-fulfilling prophecy and stereotyping.

Question 9

‘Spurters’

Answer 9

randomly selected group of participants

Question 10

Learning to labour’

Answer 10

the informal, creative, counter-school culture of the lads is vital to understanding the reproduction of class structure. They use culture to explain and interpret the structures of schooling and work that enfold them, but doing so also steers them into social reproduction.

Question 11

Individualised

Answer 11

being a person separate from other people and possessing his or her own needs or goals, rights and responsibilities.

Question 12

Globalization

Answer 12

ongoing process that involves interconnected changes in the economic, cultural, social, and political spheres of society. As a process, it involves the ever-increasing integration of these aspects between nations, regions, communities, and even seemingly isolated places.

Question 13

PISA

Answer 13

Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a collaborative effort among the Member countries of the OECD to measure how well young adults, at age 15 and therefore approaching the end of compulsory schooling, are prepared to meet the challenges of today’s knowledge societies.

Question 14

Feminism

Answer 14

conflict theory and theoretical perspective which observes gender in its relation to power, both at the level of face-to-face interaction and reflexivity within a social structure at large

Question 15

Patriarchal ideology

Answer 15

is a social system in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property

Question 16

Gendered socialisation

Answer 16

is the process of learning the social expectations and attitudes associated with one’s sex.

Question 17

Gendered subject choice

Answer 17

the process of different genders picking stereotyped subject choices based on their gender.

Question 18

Male gaze

Answer 18

he male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world, in the visual arts and literature, from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the male viewer.

Question 19

Gender domains

Answer 19

tasks and activities that boys are girls see as male or female territory. Therefore relevant to their gender.