This is the greatest organizational innovation in higher education in the 20th century.
What is the two-year (or community) college
100
This occurs when admissions officers glue attributes of college applicants together into coherent and ascetically compelling composites--characters, with names.
What is evaluative storytelling.
100
This theory of change in educational stratification suggests that the education system expands in response to functional requirements of an industrial society.
What is modernization theory.
100
These are who the "lads" described as "ear 'oles."
What is school conformists (or students who followed the rules).
100
From Willis: This is where the “lads” thought that the last lunchtime of their last term should be spent.
What is at the pub.
200
In this model, institutions of higher education are regarded as responding exclusively to students' curricular preferences.
What is the consumer-choice model.
200
This is the step designed to ensure that all of the various jobs officers needed the admitted classes to do for the College were taken care of, before decision letters were posted.
What is class crafting.
200
These are the only two countries in which educational opportunities got more equal over time.
What are Sweden and the Netherlands.
200
The “lads” have a very traditional (and sexist) view on gender relations. This is the category they reserved for women who are seen as having a good reputation and who have potential for being a loyal domestic partner.
What is the "girlfriend."
200
From Stevens: This is how applications that did not require aid were described by admissions officers.
What is "free."
300
This is deference to the perceived needs of more powerful institutions.
What is anticipatory subordination.
300
This is the precedent that Gruter v. Bollinger set for any type of affirmative action.
What is individualized consideration of applications.
300
This hypothesis states that with increasing age, students will rely less on parental resources.
What is the life-course hypothesis.
300
This is a source of much conflict between the “lads” and school staff.
What is dress (or drinking, smoking, timetables).
300
From Brint and Karabel: This model to explain the transformation of American community colleges takes as it's starting point organizations themselves, which are seen as pursuing their own distinct interests.
What is the institutional model.
400
This is the solution that leaders of the community college movement devised to deal with the overflow of students whose educational and occupational aspirations were often greater than their objective possibilities.
What is the creation of a vocational education track.
400
This is what effective storytelling is dependent on, and what will disadvantage students from less privileged backgrounds during consideration of applications.
What is a generous supply or flow of information.
400
This hypothesis would predict that only the best and brightest working-class children make it to college, while there is a greater range of ability among middle-class and upper-class children who make it to college.
What is the differential selection hypothesis.
400
This is the set problematic attitudes held by the “lads" that the school formally backed.
What is racism.
400
From Blossfeld and Shavit: This theory of change in educational stratification suggests that students’ social class background will not matter at early schooling levels, but will matter in later levels.
What is cultural reproduction theory.
500
What is the biggest structural constraint under which community colleges chose to vocationalize themselves.
What is the subordinate position in relation to older and more prestigious four-year colleges and universities.
500
This is a faulty assumption by the Supreme Court about how admissions officers work.
What is that they are autonomous and have complete control over who is admitted (or that they do not have to consult others).
500
This was the main finding of the article.
What is…despite expansion of the educational system in the countries they studied, in all but two there was little change in socioeconomic inequality of educational opportunity.
500
This is what Willis focuses on as a main reason that the working class “lads” eventually get working class jobs.
What is the informal group, or working class peer culture, or counter-school culture.
500
From Blossfeld and Shavit: This reproductive theory suggests that education at a particular level will only expand (that is, open up to everyone) when virtually all advantaged students are enrolled at that level.