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Vocabulary
Vocabulary Pt. 2
Vocabulary Pt. 3
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A formal system of teaching knowledge, values, and skills
Education
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Intended beneficial consequences of people's actions
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
Grade Inflation
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Privileges that accompany a social location that help someone in life
Cultural Capital
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Unintended beneficial consequences of people's actions
Latent functions
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Passing students on to the next level even though they have not mastered basic materials
Social Promotion
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The use of diplomas and degrees to determine who is eligible for jobs, even though the diploma or degree may be irrelevant to the actual work
Credential Society
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A function of education- funneling people into a society's various positions
Social placement
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Refers to high school graduates who have difficulty with basic reading and math
Functional Illiteracy
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The process by which education opens and closes doors of opportunity; another term for the social placement of education
Gatekeeping
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The unwritten goals of schools, such as teaching obedience to authority and conformity to cultural norms
Hidden Curriculum
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The sorting of students into different educational programs on the basis of real or perceived abilities
Tracking
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The sociological principle that schools correspond to (or reflect) the social structure of their society
Correspondence Principle
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Robert Merton's term for an originally false assertion that becomes true simply because it was predicted
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
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When students show the teacher an eagerness to engage in the classroom
Signaling