Soci Midterm 2 Flashcards

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Social reproduction

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Process through which societies maintain structural continuity over time

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Educational attainment

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More women are attaining a university degree compared to men

Grades are related to how much your parents make

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3
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Primary school bullying

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Children are the most cruel- have not developed empathy

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Social. Lass and gender issues

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Those with more initial education tend to be more likely to participate in continuing education

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Historical growth

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Educational expansion for the knowledge economy or credential inflation in a neo-liberal age

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Prose literacy

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Is defined as the knowledge and skills needed to understand and use information from text such as news stories, editorials, poems, and fiction

Levels from 1-5

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Schooling is organized

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  1. Standardization
  2. Conformity
  3. Compliance
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Friendships could be viewed as a form of

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Social capital

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Weak ties

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Loose and remote student friendships

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Strong ties

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Intimate and close friendships

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Binding social capital

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Reworks between people with similar characteristics

Predominant intra class friendships

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12
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Bridging social capital

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The links between people with different characteristics or form different associations and communities

exceptional (inter class friendships)

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13
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Methods

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Social-graphs

In depth semi structured individual interviews

Focus groups

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Compels it’s and irreducibility of friendships

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Respond to agency of the students

Makes a difference on who is in your group

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15
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The contribution of schooling contributes to processes of

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Personality formation

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Hidden curriculum

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Understandings that students develop as a result of their day to day experiences within an educational setting

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Concept of individualizations

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The process through which people become socialized into seeing themselves as autonomous individuals rather than with reference to the social relations which they are part

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Subtle ways of regulation

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Recognition of certain kinds of knowledge and experiences as valid and the denial of alternative forms of understanding

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4 important types of practices structure the regulation of the educational experience

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  1. streaming
  2. Official knowledge
  3. Hegemony
  4. Silencing
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Streaming

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Practice through which students are placed into different programs, or groups based on their abilities, aptitude’s, interests and needs

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Pedagogical justifications

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Increased efficiency in teaching gained by clustering students of similar background and abilities into the same class

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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Students eventually adopt behaviours that are consistent with the expectations and perceptions of their abilities and roles as held by teachers and other educational officials

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Working class =

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Lower steams

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Middle class =

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Higher streams

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Official knowledge

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Baking approach

Dio logical and interactive: every educational participant takes part in the ongoing transfer and interpretation of knowledge

Too down approach to knowledge dissemination that tend to structure formal education is based on the disputed acceptance of official knowledge

: ideas and beliefs that are in some way authorized by designated agencies and authorities

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Hegemony

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Coherent set of values and beliefs and meanings that represent the existing, dominant social order as natural , obvious, right and just.

School = hegemonic when they fail to address or encourage fundamental questions about the nature of our social reality

  • how knowledge is organized and presented in a classroom
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Silencing

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1) exists when particular topics and information are excluded or discouraged in a classroom
2) when the lives, experiences, interests of certain educational participants are considered irrelevant

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Marxist reasons

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One into sets of meanings, institutions and relations

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Shared knowledge

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Info held in common by a particular social group which is regarded as true

30
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Collective intelligence : Pierre levy

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The sum total of info held by individual members of the group and the data posted on a knowledge community that can be accessed to solve specific issues

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The expert paradigm

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Requires a bounded body of knowledge which an individual can master

Question are open-ended and profoundly interdisciplinary

32
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3 key themes for teaching

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  1. Teaching as a profession
  2. Gender, diversity and teaching
  3. . proletarianization and intensification of teaching
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Teaching as a profession

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Professional traits

Historical accounts

Pressure group theory

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Professional traits

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Formal credentials based on a body of advanced knowledge

High degrees of decision making authority in the workplace

Commitment to careers and clients

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Historical accounts

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Emphasize the progressive steps that teachers have taken towards professionalism

Most provinces require a university degree to qualify for a teaching certificate

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Pressure group theory

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Organized interest groups or lobby group

Stresses how teachers have struggled to improve their professional status and its associated occupational welfare

Teachers can fulfill their interests more effectively through collective bargaining, political mobilization and labor militancy

As as result of the constant that state regulation places on teaching, the degree of influence that this occupation has on educational policy and practice is often limited

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Educational admin tried to control teachers. ESP female

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1) legislation and regulations that managed the character and work of teachers
2) feminine dedication and loyalty towards the public school

38
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Proletarianization

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Social processes that subject teachers to increasing, externally driven forms of control and to outside pressures that result in the intensified action of their work

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Intensification

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Takes place when the demands associate with a job are high

Time is one of the biggest concerns

40
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Post industrial society

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A form of social and economic organization based on knowledge and info related activities, advanced tech and service sector work

Important link = recent social transformations

41
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Browns congestion

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Social exclusion and social justice argues that existing sociological research on education and soci mobility needs to be extended

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Increasing intergenerational social mobility

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Central principal of the functionalist theory

43
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Meritocracy

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Rule by the most deserving,most talented people in society

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Neo-liberal policies

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Views market rather than meritocratic competition as the route to an efficient, fair and competitive economy

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Both functionalist and neo-liberal theories view the economy as

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Continuing to create mobility opportunities for those from disadvantaged background through a general upgrading of the workforce

46
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Two pathways to social mobility

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Absolute mobility

Relative mobility

47
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Absolute

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New job openings may become available to those of working class origins in circumstances when there are not enough labor market entrants from middle class backgrounds to meet a rising demand for managerial or professional jobs

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Relative

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Chances of (im) mobility of those born into different social classes. Regardless of how the class of occupational structure may change over time

49
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Saturation

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Managerial and professional jobs already constitute a significant proportion of positions

50
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Offshore competition

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Highly skilled jobs can increasingly be undertaken by highly-educated workers from China and India

51
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Digital Taylorism

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Digitalization of knowledge that seeks to standardize functions and jobs