Sociology Education Flashcards
Education in society
Transmits culture, skills and knowledge contributing to personal development and societal cohesion
Sociology of education
Public institutions and individual experiences shape educational processes and outcomes
Socialisation role
Children are socialised into norms and values that benefit society
A society
A group of people living together in a more or less ordered community
Social control role
Learning right from wrong
Economic role
Teaching suitable knowledge and skills to students
Selective role
Schools being used to help place people into suitable jobs
Material deprivation
A lack of financial recourses and necessities that are crucial to education
Feinstein
Parents own level of education impacts the success of their child
Future orientation
Planing for the future
Deferred gratification
Putting of todays pleasures for future gains
Present time gratification
A lack of emphasise on long term goals and future plans
Fatalism
An acceptance of failure without trying to fix it
Collectivism
Working together through trade unions
Habitus
Cultural frame work and set of ideas
Cultural capital
The knowledge, attitudes, language, tastes and abilities of middle class, helping to access education
Economic capital
Middle class parents can convert their economic capital to send their children to private school and tutoring
Educational capital
Schools in capitalist societies legitimise inequality and reproduce the class structure
Ideal pupil - Becker
Teacher’s perceptions can be shaped by class based bias, having lasting impacts on achievement
Class and teacher’s expectations - Dunne and Gazeley
The study shows how teacher’s expectations can perpetuate class based inequalities, with working class students being given fewer opportunities to improve their performance
Pygmalion in the classroom - Rosenthal and Jacobson
This study provides clear experimental evidence of how teacher’s expectations can create a self fulfilling prophecy, where students conform to the labels imposed on them
Setting
Organising students by individual subjects
Streaming
Placing students into ability classes across subjects
