Test 1 Flashcards
What is sociology of education?
Social class, Social mobility, Social skills, Credentials, and Job readiness,
Credentials = field of future
Social class = education increase this
Social mobility = education to maintain/ improve the social mobility
Job readiness = how prepared you are to work
Social skills = meeting people, learn, society in school as secondary socialization
The 2 Levels of inquiry
Macrosocial: the big picture
Microsocial: experiences of individuals
The question of control
2 different opinions on who is running the show
2 different opinions…
Structural: our lives are controlled by larger social forces.
i.e. law systems, classes.
Agency: individuals rule their own life’s.
i.e. getting themself out of poverty.
Conceptualizing knowledge
2 main ideas
2 main ideas…
- Ontology: how we view the truth
- Epistemology: how we actual get the truth
what is Subjective reality
Meaning is made uniquely by individuals
what do believers of conceptualizing knowledge think?
Science is a bad way to study human behaviour
We need specific way of studying human behaviour
classic sociologists or the founders
weber, Marx, and Durkheim
Social reproduction theroy
Karl Marx
there are things in place within systems to always reproduce the system
State ideology apparatus theroy
owner and worker
Institutions spread bourgeois (owners) ideas to ensure proletariat (workers) are in a state of false class consciousness
By Altusse, but a Marxist perspective
Correspondence principle theroy
school=exploited
Karl Marx
Norms/values that are learn in school affect ppls futures in a capitalist market
Hidden curriculum theory
Marx
Social learning reproduces a capitalist system
AKA all the socials stuff you learn in school reproduce capitalism.
Means of production
Marx
the use/ ownership of goods and services.
who is Emile Durkheim and what do they belive
abt education
key theorists for education
- Education exists to socialize ppl
- Creation of an ideal citizen
Rationalization
Weber
Increased dependancy on science
Credentialism
Weber
The requirement of obtaining specific qualification of memberships