History of Education
The Social institution responsible for passing on skills, knowledge, values and norms to the next generation to allow society to function smoothly is?
What is Education
The disproportionate redistribution to school districts
Unequal school funding
This major sociological perspective views education as a system that teaches knowledge, skills, values, and prepares individuals to take their place in society.
structural functionalist perspective
Who was getting positively affected when the change from agriculture to industrial economy happened.
High schoolers
Education
Around what century B.C.E. did formal, institutionalized, secular education in Western civilization begin in Ancient Greece, where students studied subjects such as philosophy, mathematics, music, and gymnastics?
8th century B.C.E
The unfair treatment of a student based on their test scores
Discrimination based on IQ
This concept from conflict theory explains how schools sort students into different academic paths which often reinforcing class and racial inequalities.
Tracking
The tradition high school to college pathway.
In the school space what is the opposite of Alternative Patheways.
Lessons that students learn indirectly, but that are an implicit part of their socialization in the school environment.
The Hidden Curriculum
During the Middle Ages, universities offered courses in three main subjects that were mainly available to privileged groups like royals, aristocrats, and church families. What were these subjects?
Theology, law, and medicine
The work, Savage Inequalities, examines the disparities between which types of schools?
Wealthy sub-urban schools and impoverished urban Schools
This symbolic interactionist concept describes how teacher expectations can shape student performance.
Self‑fulfilling prophecy
True or False - Early college high schools allow students to earn highschool diplomas and associates degree at the same time?
True
___ is the study that argues that the social world is constructed through the interations of indivduals.
Symbolic Interactionist Study
During the European Enlightenment, how did thinkers like Voltaire and Locke shift educational values away from religious tradition, and what three ideas did they emphasize instead?
Reason, Logic and science
According to the hidden curriculum, education teaches working class students to accept what?
To accept their lower-class status
Randall Collins argued that modern education increasingly serves this purpose, where degrees act more as status markers than indicators of actual skill.
Credentialism
What is the sociological term for the system where people are ranked in a hierarchy, based on their wealth, race, and gender?
Social stratification
This study sees society as a system characterized by inequalities and competition.
A Conflict Study
By 1929, the United States had reached an 'advanced industrial' stage. At this point, what three levels of schooling were established and available in every single state?
Elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools.
This conflict theory concept argues that one purpose of education is to maintain social inequality.
Reproducing Social Class Structure
This sociological perspective argues that educational institutions legitimize existing power structures by defining certain cultural behaviors and values as “normal,” giving middle and upper‑class students an advantage while marginalizing others.
Conflict perspective or cultural capital theory
Which famous sociologist is mostly associated with the study of capitalism, class systems, and the exploitation of working class?
Karl Marx
A study that argues that class inequalities are reproduced in educational settings and that there is very little schools can do to combat this.
Structural Functionalist Study