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A function of education - funneling people into a society's various positions.
What is Social Placement.
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The intended beneficial consequences of peoples' actions.
What is manifest functions.
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Higher grades given for the same work; a general rise in student grades without a corresponding increase in learning.
What is grade inflation.
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term coined by Randall Collins - employers use diplomas and degrees as
What is sorting devices
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A formal system of teaching knowledge values and skills.
What is Education
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A high school graduate who has difficulty with basic reading and math.
What is functinal illiterate.
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the process by which education opens and closes doors of opportunity; another term for the social placement function of education.
What is gatekeeping.
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True or False- In the United States, children from the richer families score higher on college admission tests and are more likely to go to college.
What is True
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laws that require all children to attend school until a specified age or until they complete a minimum grade in school.
What are Mandatory Education Laws
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the unwritten goals of school, such as teaching obedience to authority and conformity to cultural norms.
What is Hidden Cirriculum
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In education, the sorting of students into different programs on the basis of perceived abilities.
What is tracking.
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the process of transmitting values from one group to another; often refers to how cultural traits are transmitted across generations and in education; the ways in which schools transmit a group's culture, especially its core values
What is cultural transmissions of values.
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Robert Merton's term for originally false assertion that becomes true simply because it was predicted.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy
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Unintended beneficial consequences of people's actions.
What is latent functions.
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sociologist who studied a kindergarten teacher that felt she knew the children's abilites well enough to assign them to their separate worktable.
Who is Ray Rist.
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Two schools mentioned in the school shootings: Exploring a Myth sections.
What is Columbine High School and Virginia Tech.
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Three tracks that U.S. high schools funnel their students into
What is general, college prep, or honors.
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type of theorist that suggest the schools perpetuate the social divisions of society and help members of the elite to maintain their dominance.
What is Conflict Theorist.
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number of U.S. children that are being taught at home.
What is 1.5 million
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percentage of high school graduates enter college.
What is 69% (2/3)