Lesson 7: Education Flashcards
Formal and informal process of transmitting the knowledge, beliefs, skills from one generation to the next
Education
___ and ___ process of transmitting the ___, ___, ___ from one ___ to the next
Formal, informal, knowledge, beliefs, skills, generation
To equip minds of the younger generation
Education
Important in reproducting existing belief system and practices of a particular society
Education
Pervasive institution determining one’s career
Education
Education teach what? Give three.
— Knowledge and skills to fulfill significant positions in our social group
— Child care
— Sex education and birth control advice
Education pass ___ ___ from one generation to the next
core values
Who extols virtues of the society’s founders, their struggle for freedom from oppression, and the goodness of the country’s basic social institutions?
Grade school teachers
Grade school teachers extols ___ of the society’s ___, their ___ for ___ from ___, and the ___ of the country’s basic social institutions
virtue, founders, struggle, freedome, oppression, goodness
Education molds students into a more ___ unit for ___
cohesive, belongingness
How does education help in national identity?
Exposure to culture
Determine which people enter occupations
Gatekeeping
To determines who is eligible for a job
Credentials
Rich people have many ___ because they have many ___.
credentials, resources
Sorting students into different educational programs on the basis of their perceived abilities
Tracking
Who were the people that said people are sorted based on their merit? When was this statement?
— Talcott Parsons (1940)
— Kingsley Davis (1945)
— Wilbert Moore (1945)
High income and prestige are offered for those people who put up years in education.
Social placement
Education molds students into a more cohesive unit for belongingness
Social integration
Conflict perspective examine how the educational system reproduces the ___
Social inequality
True or False: Conflict perspective discusses how it is predictable if child will go to college or not.
True
According to ___ perspective, ___ background is more meaningful than children’s ___.
conflict, family, abilities
the attitudes and the unwritten rules of behavior that school teach in addition to the formal curriculum
The Hidden Curriculum
The cultural bias that it is built into tests is clearly not tilted in favor of the lower classes
Discrimination by IQ
Where do poor people with lower scores on IQ tests are assigned to?
Less demanding courses