Education And Work

Question 1

What is a normalising agency

Answer 1

Practise, behaviours, ideas
Regulates behaviours
Sets standards
Established norms

Question 2

How might education be inequal

Answer 2

Opportunities for some groups are not the same

Question 3

What is the functionalist point of view of education

Answer 3

Reproducing status quo - ensure working class doesn’t aspire to be barrister etc

Question 4

What is the cultural capital theory

Answer 4

Relationship between social and educational factors in school success. Inherited from families - power both symbolic and materialistic

Question 5

What is self elimination

Answer 5

Cultural capital absorbed by school. From poorer families face alienation and self eliminate from education

Question 6

What are teacher expectations for success

Answer 6

Assumptions about student outcomes based on social/cultural/class background

Question 7

What is the language code

Answer 7

Bernstein 1975 different classes with different codes which affected school experience and life chances

Question 8

What is ability streaming

Answer 8

Dividing students into groups that receive different instruction due to the perceived differences in academic ability. Teachers react to students according to stream they’re in. Oaks 1990 lower streams receive poorer education in quality of subjects types of teachers and textbooks available

Question 9

Define work

Answer 9

Socially defined within social historical context, source of self identity and status

Question 10

What is a profession

Answer 10

Prestigious white collar occupation requiring extensive formal education

Question 11

What are the theories of work - Marx

Answer 11

Alienation-isolation-misery leads to powerlessness. Workers labour source, hired fired at will. Impact of alienation and mass production reducing need for skill and intelligence

Question 12

What is durkheims theory of work

Answer 12

Division of labour - organic solidarity - perform different tasks dependent on one another - people have unlimited desires - not happy producing anomie

Question 13

What is an anomie

Answer 13

Social disintegration, resolved from freely elected admin bodies representing workers

Question 14

What is Fordism and Taylorism in regards to work

Answer 14

Perform competitive tasks that require little skill - employees use deskilling as control by technology - less opportunity to work at own pace

Question 15

How does gender relate to work

Answer 15

Horizontal segregation (differing jobs), vertical segregation (status, pay)

Question 16

How does feminism relate to work

Answer 16

Conflict between obtaining paid work opposed to unpaid domestic
Men doing more domestic, women still do more
Career interruptions, less likely to be promoted

Question 17

What are the causes of unemployment

Answer 17

Frictional
Structural
Regional
Cyclical

Question 18

What are the effect of unemployment

Answer 18

Devalues standard of life, pressure on wages
Less secure
Bargain power
Less willing to leave in satisfying jobs of fear of finding new job
Divisions in society increase
Increase in unemployment, decrease minority’s group life chances

Question 19

What are the personal effects of unemployment

Answer 19

Financial hardship
Loss of identity 
Purpose of life/direction
Health deterioration
Suicide
Increase leisure not sub for work

Question 20

What are the effects of unemployment on the community

Answer 20

Increased stress
Less property value
Marriage stress and divorce
Less local economy
Emergence of underclass
Intergenerational unemployment

Question 21

What is the aim of education

Answer 21

Good for economy
Trains young for employment
Help shape citizens
Law abiding young people