Education Flashcards
Schooled society
Refers to the ways in which the education systems has fundamentally changed in modern society
3 reasons why Davies and Guppy theorized that the education system has changed
1) they believed there was a growth in modern schooling in Canada, particular mass enrolment in post secondary school
2) they believed schooling has become increasingly important to modern life
3) the forms and function of education are increasing and diversifying in our modern schooled society
Manifest functions
Are the obvious and intended functions of school
Such as teaching basic knowledge and skills
Latest function
Of education is its unintended consequences
Such as the things you learn from the people
Latent functions fall into 3 broad categories
1) Socialization of young people
2) selection of people into employment
3) legitimation of certain types of knowledge
The relationship between ______ and _______ was one of Durkheims main topics of research
Socialization and education
________ was interested in how education facilitated the functioning of society in general
Durkheim
Durkheim argued universal education serves the ______ is society in a number of ways
Needs
Education also socializes children into the mainstream so society successfully _______ itself
Reproduces
Mechanic vs organic solidarity
Explain how different
Mechanic solidarity means everyone is similar
Organic solidarity means people are dissimilar but interdependent
The education system _______ individuals by awarding badges of _________
Selects
Ability
_______ argued that schools are based on bureaucracies and work to confer status and prestige
Weber
________ in education are not a bad thing when they produce degree efficiently
Bureaucracies
________ as a way of solving problems is thinking based on four factors
Rationalization
Rationalization’s four factors
1) predictability
2) calculability
3) efficiency
4) control
Predictability
Things can be repeated with the expectation of the same result
Calculability
Things can be quantified or counted
Efficiency
The best means to a given end
Control
The enchanted certainty of some outcome
The proto type of rationalization in modern society is referred to as _________
Bureaucracy
The rise in bureaucracies has also meant a growing need for individuals to have _______ for _____________
Certification for certain occupations
Credentialing
When a qualification or competence is issued to an individual by a party with the authority to do so
Such as a university giving degrees
High status groups maintain their privilege by aquiring more _____ and _____________ and keeping other from these routes
Education
Education credentials
Education ________ certain kinds of knowledge and divisions in society
Legitimated