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Vocab- Unintended and often hidden consequences
Latent Functions
What is a social perspective
A way to understand human behavior
Reasons people don't go to college
- Cost
- Don't know what to study
- Need to work/money
What does the "T" in Butch T. Cougar stand for?
"The"
The risk of confirming in oneself a characteristic that is a negative stereotype
Stereotype threat
Social implications of lower class schools
- Less access to resources (tutoring, school supplies etc.)
- Fewer extra curricular opportunity's
- social exclusion
- Under resourced schools (fewer teachers, bigger class sizes)
Why do we use social perspectives
Sociologists use social perspectives to understand how broader social forces shape individual behavior and social patterns.
College academic expectations
- Self guided academics
- Knowing when assignments are due
- Class attendance
What year was WSU founded
1890
Tracking
designation of academic courses for students based on presumed aptitude
New York City practices what kind of school system
"School choice"
Functionalist Perspective
To educate students
How many Ivy League schools are there?
8
True for false: WSU is the only university rehabilitate and study bears?
True!
A child prepared by education for a bureaucratic adult world
Organizational child
Who was president during the integration of the Little Rock School System?
Eisenhower
focuses on how the education experience is created through interaction and shared meanings in the classroom.
Interactionist Perspective
What type of school is often challenged for their unequal treatment of economically disadvantaged people
The Ivy League
16,000
Manifest Functions
Intended and recognized consequences
Vocab - Cultural skills and knowledge passed on to youth by their parents and through their social and economic position
Cultural capital
Which perspective believes that education only serves to protect social communities
Functionalist
What is the average ivy league acceptance rate within 1%
5%
What were the original school colors
Pink and Blue! (To replicate the color of the Pullman sunsets!)
Investments in social relationships and networks distributed unequally by social class
Social capital