Chapter 12 Flashcards
Education
Institution within the social structure that is responsible for the formal transmission of knowledge
S-F on education
Functions of education help society, schools transmit knowledge and skills, schools help society run more smoothly by socializing young people to conform, and sorts children
Conflict theory and education
Schools reinforce the status quo and inequality, children learn cultural and historical perspectives of dominant culture, evaluating people based on education=based on who their parents are
Hidden curriculum
Underlying cultural messages that schools teach
Credentialism
Bias based on credentials; assumption some are better than others simply because they have particular educational credential
S-I on education
Processes that produce unequal results (self-fulfilling)
Tracking
Use of early evaluations to determine the educational programs that a child will be encouraged or allowed to follow
School choice
Range of options that enable families to choose where their children go to school
Religion
System of beliefs and practices related to sacred things that unites believers into a moral community
Secularization
Process of transferring things ideas, or events from sacred authority to non-sacred, or secular, authority
Fundamentalism
Religious movements that believe their most sacred book(s) are the literal word of God, accept traditional interpretations of those books, and stress the importance of living in ways that mesh with those traditional interpretations
Profane
All that is routine and taken for granted
Sacred
Events and things we hold in awe and reverence
S-F on religion
Offers support, consolation, and reconciliation
Conflict theory on religion
Religions foster and repress conflicts, religion and power