What is a social institution through which a society's children are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms?
What is Education?
What sociological paradigm views education as an important function in society?
What is structural functionalism?
What perspective views the educational system as reinforcing and perpetuating social inequalities that arise from differences in class, gender, race, and ethnicity?
What is social-conflict perspective?
What perspective views interactions between teachers and students?
What is symbolic-interactionist?
What is one of the most powerful predictors of student achievement?
What is social class?
What is the learning of academic facts and concepts through a formal curriculum?
What is formal eduation?
What are intended and visible functions of education?
What is manifest function?
From the conflict perspective, what is the socialization function of education?
What is indoctrination of Western bureaucratic ideology?
According to symbolic interactionists, ________ has a direct correlation to those who are in power and those who are labeled.
What is labeling?
What is the likelihood of dropping out of high school between students from lower-income and higher-income families?
What is 5x higher among students from lower-income families?
What describes learning about cultural values, norms, and expected behaviors by participating in a society?
What is informal education?
What are the hidden and unintended functions of education?
What is latent function?
Carefully instructed and supervised, guided through the day in ordered agendas, rewarded for conformity, discouraged from individuality, and prepared for the demands and constraints of a bureaucratic adult word are characteristics of?
What is an organizational child?
What separates advanced and regular learners that are students who are identified as college bound versus work bound?
What is tracking?
What is the risk of confirming in oneself a characteristic that is part of a negative stereotype about one's group?
What is stereotype threat?
Through ______ education, we learn how to dress for different occasions, how to perform regular life routines, and how to keep our bodies clean.
What is informal education?
Socialization, social control, and social placement are examples of what function?
What is manifest?
What does research show of gender relations in schools?
What is privileging of males? (Males have favored status; girls are invisible; boys receive more praise, corrections, feedback, and active teaching)
What label symbolizes completion of education?
What is credentialism? (These certificates or degrees serve as a symbol of what a person has achieved, and allows the labeling of that individual.)
True or False:
There are little academic achievement gaps between Black, Hispanic, and Native American students and their White and Asian peers.
What is False?
True or False:
Bachelor's degree is becoming the education standard in the U.S.
Which of the following is NOT an example of latent function?
A. Courtship
B. Social networks
C. Transmission of culture
D. Political and social integration
What is C. Transmission of culture?
What is cultural knowledge that serves as currency that helps us navigate a culture?
What is cultural capital?
Is symbolic interactionist macro- or micro-level?
What is micro?
How is segregation a problem today?
What is there is a divide in the performance of white students from affluent background and their nonwhite, less affluent, counterparts?