Sociology Education

Question 1

Education in society

Answer 1

Transmits culture, skills and knowledge contributing to personal development and societal cohesion

Question 2

Sociology of education

Answer 2

Public institutions and individual experiences shape educational processes and outcomes

Question 3

Socialisation role

Answer 3

Children are socialised into norms and values that benefit society

Question 4

A society

Answer 4

A group of people living together in a more or less ordered community

Question 5

Social control role

Answer 5

Learning right from wrong

Question 6

Economic role

Answer 6

Teaching suitable knowledge and skills to students

Question 7

Selective role

Answer 7

Schools being used to help place people into suitable jobs

Question 8

Material deprivation

Answer 8

A lack of financial recourses and necessities that are crucial to education

Question 9

Feinstein

Answer 9

Parents own level of education impacts the success of their child

Question 10

Future orientation

Answer 10

Planing for the future

Question 11

Deferred gratification

Answer 11

Putting of todays pleasures for future gains

Question 12

Present time gratification

Answer 12

A lack of emphasise on long term goals and future plans

Question 13

Fatalism

Answer 13

An acceptance of failure without trying to fix it

Question 14

Collectivism

Answer 14

Working together through trade unions

Question 15

Habitus

Answer 15

Cultural frame work and set of ideas

Question 16

Cultural capital

Answer 16

The knowledge, attitudes, language, tastes and abilities of middle class, helping to access education

Question 17

Economic capital

Answer 17

Middle class parents can convert their economic capital to send their children to private school and tutoring

Question 18

Educational capital

Answer 18

Schools in capitalist societies legitimise inequality and reproduce the class structure

Question 19

Ideal pupil - Becker

Answer 19

Teacher’s perceptions can be shaped by class based bias, having lasting impacts on achievement

Question 20

Class and teacher’s expectations - Dunne and Gazeley

Answer 20

The study shows how teacher’s expectations can perpetuate class based inequalities, with working class students being given fewer opportunities to improve their performance

Question 21

Pygmalion in the classroom - Rosenthal and Jacobson

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Setting

Answer 22

Organising students by individual subjects

Question 23

Streaming

Answer 23

Placing students into ability classes across subjects