Flashcards

Glossary of Social

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1Bilingual Education Education in an English-language school system in which students with little fluency in English are taught in both their native language and English. Sentence My school have bilingual education.
2Charter School A school that is established by a charter, is run by teachers, parents, etc., and uses tax money but does not have to be run according to the rules of a city or state. Sentence Charter school use tax money.
3Church The clergy or officialdom of a religious body. Sentence This is the oldest church in town.
4Cognitive ability: Relating to, or involving conscious mental activities (such as thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering). Sentence: Homo sapiens' survival is founded in their filling an evolutionary niche referred to as the cognitive niche.
5Compensatory Education: Educational programs intended to make up for experiences (as cultural) lacked by disadvantaged children. Senetence: In your school the people have compensatory education.
6Cooperative Learning: Relating to a business or organization that is owned and operated by the people who work there or the people who use its services. Sentence: The witness was very cooperative learning.
7Cult: A situation in which people admire and care about something or someone very much or too much. Sentence: She has developed a cult following.
8Cultural Bias: Relating to a particular group of people and their habits, beliefs, traditions, etc. Sentence: There are some cultural bias differences between us.
9Denomination: A religious group. Sentence: People from several different religious denominations participated in the event.
10Education The knowledge and development resulting from an educational process (a person of little education). Sentence: The school is devoted to the education of children with reading difficulties.
11Educational Equality. The action or process of teaching all in a school, college, or university. Sentence: Guatemala don´t have a education equality.
12For-profit schools: As the education services industry or proprietary education, refers to educational institutions operated by private, profit-seeking businesses. Sentence: For-profit schools are very important in the world.
13Fundamentalism: A movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles: Islamic fundamentalism, political fundamentalism. Sentence: Fundamentalism is the base of religious.
14Hidden curriculum: Is a side effect of an education, which are learned but not openly intended such as the transmission of norms, values, and beliefs conveyed in the classroom and the social environment. Sentence: The hidden curriculum not leran values.
15Integrative curriculum: Is a learning theory describing a movement toward integrated lessons helping students make connections across curricula. Sentence: Integrative curriculm helps all the students.
16Latent Function: Latent Functions is conscious and deliberate, the latent ones the unconscious and unintended. Sentence: Lantent Function have a positive effect in the society.
17Magnet School: Refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools. Sentence: DeBakey High School for Health Professions in Houston, Texas is a magnet school specializing in medical sciences.
18Manifest Function: Any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is planned and intentional. Sentence: I assume that it is undeniable that motherhood is woman's most manifest function.
19Meritocracy A system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement. Sentence In the meritocracy leadership selected on the basis of intellectual criteria.
20Monotheism: The doctrine or belief that there is only one God. Sentence: Polytheism is more consonant with the republican idea, than monotheism.
21Multicultural Education: Form of education or teaching that incorporates the histories, texts, values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds. Sentence: Different people use multicultural educaction in backgrounds.
22Open classroom: An informal flexible system of elementary education in which open discussions and individualized activities replace the traditional subject-centered studies. Sentence: In the world more countries have open classroom.
23Polytheism: The belief that there is more than one god. Sentence: The egips are polytheism.
24Profane: To treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt. Sentence: The once-lovely landscape had been profaned by ugly factories.
25Protestant ethican: Ethic that stresses the virtue of hard work, thrift, and self-discipline. Sentence: A secular kind of Protestant ethic is alive and well in post-Christian Europe..
26Religion: A specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects. Sentence: Millions of Scientologists around the world embrace the Scientology religion.
27Religiosity: The quality of being religious; piety; devoutness. Sentence: Religiosity can certainly affect our sexuality, Levkoff says.
28Sacred: Devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated. Sentence: Hitler made it clear that it was his sacred mission to destroy the Jews.
29School desegregation: The elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which people from different religions, ancestries, ethnic groups, etc. Sentence: May cities school desegregation.
30Schooling Teaching that is done in a school. Sentence He has had little schooling.
31Sect: A group regarded as heretical or as deviating from a generally accepted religious tradition. Sentence: One sect of medical researchers holds the minority view that the disease is not caused by that virus
32Secularization: To make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism. Sentence: Between deism and secularization the connection was reasonable.
33Self-fulfilling prophecy: Is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior. Sentence: More people doesn´t know self-fulfilling prophecy.
34Tracking The assigning of students to a curricular track. Sentence Took a class in the tracking of game that the hunters' association offers.
35Voucher system: A system of accounting in which a voucher (as for an account payable) is prepared usually with supporting documents attached for each transaction or a series of transactions affecting a single account and when approved is entered in a voucher register. Sentence: Supermarket use a voucher system.