Test 1

Question 1

What is sociology of education?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

The 2 Levels of inquiry

Answer 2

Macrosocial: the big picture
Microsocial: experiences of individuals

Question 3

The question of control

2 different opinions on who is running the show

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Conceptualizing knowledge

2 main ideas

Answer 4

2 main ideas…

1. Ontology: how we view the truth
2. Epistemology: how we actual get the truth

Question 5

what is Subjective reality

Answer 5

Meaning is made uniquely by individuals

Question 6

what do believers of conceptualizing knowledge think?

Answer 6

Science is a bad way to study human behaviour

We need specific way of studying human behaviour

Question 7

classic sociologists or the founders

Answer 7

weber, Marx, and Durkheim

Question 8

Social reproduction theroy

Answer 8

Karl Marx

there are things in place within systems to always reproduce the system

Question 9

State ideology apparatus theroy

owner and worker

Answer 9

Institutions spread bourgeois (owners) ideas to ensure proletariat (workers) are in a state of false class consciousness

By Altusse, but a Marxist perspective

Question 10

Correspondence principle theroy

school=exploited

Answer 10

Karl Marx

Norms/values that are learn in school affect ppls futures in a capitalist market

Question 11

Hidden curriculum theory

Answer 11

Marx

Social learning reproduces a capitalist system

AKA all the socials stuff you learn in school reproduce capitalism.

Question 12

Means of production

Answer 12

Marx

the use/ ownership of goods and services.

Question 13

who is Emile Durkheim and what do they belive

abt education

Answer 13

key theorists for education

• Education exists to socialize ppl
• Creation of an ideal citizen

Question 14

Rationalization

Answer 14

Weber
Increased dependancy on science

Question 15

Credentialism

Answer 15

Weber

The requirement of obtaining specific qualification of memberships

Question 16

what is Symbolic interaction (SI)

Answer 16

how ppl connect meaning to symbols

theorys like…
* development of the self
* I and Me
* game stage,
* symbols

Mead

Question 17

Anti-racist pedagogy

Answer 17

Bell hooks

Actively addressing race and embedded social privileges

Question 17

Cultural capital

Answer 17

How we accumulate different knowledge/ behavior/ skills

To behave and signal to ppl you are of a certain social status

Question 18

Social capital theory

Answer 18

Who we know & social network

The expressions we make because of the bonds we have with social groups

status+social capital is not unique to upper class

Question 19

The 2 half’s of Canada

Answer 19

1. French in lower half
   Schools: run by Catholic Church
   Limit attendance
2. British in upper Canada
   Schools had tuition, limited attendance, wealthy ppl
   Non-denominational schools

Question 20

3 types of schools

Answer 20

Non-denominational
Not one specific brand of Christianity

Voluntary schools
Required tuition. Not everyone did these, very elite rich school

Religious schools
Protestant and catholic schools

Question 21

what did Egerton Ryerson do?

Answer 21

• Created the education system in Canada
• Promote British cultures

British cultures = Canadian culture

Question 22

The Quiet revolution with French Canada

Answer 22

Changing in Quebec identity: they deserve better then what they were getting

Had low education, poverty, high unemployment

Bill 101 made changes

Question 23

French Bill 101

Answer 23

Making French students go to French schools

Only French signs in Quebec rather than both French and English

From sect-base (religion based) to language-base (French or English)

Question 24

Manitoba schools changing

Answer 24

Demographics such as German & Ukrainian came Started to question what they needed in Manitoba to serve their diverse ppl

Question 25

Indigenous Attawapiskat

Answer 25

Inadequate housing, chemical infected schools, lack of government response 50% death rates

Question 26

Political attitudes for indigenous education over time

Answer 26

* Assimilation ○ 'a problem to be fixed' * Segregation ○ Pushed to reserves only * Integration ○ Absorb into main society * Self determination ○ Autonomy for indigenous folk

Question 27

Mapping immigration in canada

Answer 27

Western canada; Chinese and Japanese immigrants East canada; European, cardigan and black

Question 28

Purpose and what is mass education

Answer 28

Means everyone gets a basic education ○ Class inequality; reduce poor ○ Promote morals and values; proper socialization, Durkin ○ Behavioral regulation; reduction of criminal and bad behavior ○ Identity formation

Question 29

How do we reconcile these 2- pieces of Ryerson's legacy

Answer 29

The 2 pieces 1.Ryersons contributions to public education in Ontario 2.His support for residential schools

Question 30

what did Ryerson change?

Answer 30

1. promoted COMMON SCHOOLING : free, public schooling 2.School is compulsory up to a certain age 3.Teachers need to have a state sanctioned education 4.The idea there should be a curriculum 5.That learning should be accountable 6.Schools should be overseen by superintendents 7.That there should be school boards 8.Need library's in schools 9.The idea of elementary, secondary, and collage education 10.Gendered nature of education

Question 31

What is common schooling

Answer 31

Educates all children under one system AKA non-denominational school system extremely radical Ppl refused to pay taxes, signing petitions, ppl were mad that unelected officials were influencing tax and changing religious education

Question 32

Ryerson's role in residential schools

Answer 32

Recommended boarding schools that would teach trades, family, industry His goals § Promoted farming § To benefit indig kids § Highly religous

Question 33

Donald Smith (historian)

Answer 33

Argues that Ryerson did this so indig could remain on their land as separate ppl

Question 34

common schools vs. Industrial schools

Answer 34

1. common schools Focus on mechanic, agriculture, and commerce Wanted to produce good Christian citizens 2. Industrial schools Also focused on mechanic, agriculture, and commerce Wanted to produce industrious farmers via manual labor and extensive religious teaching