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Sociology glossary - Education
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- 1Social mobilityChange of position between social classes e.g. a movement from working to middle class would be an upward social movement
- 2Equality of educational opportunityPrinciple that all people should be provided with equal opportunity in education - irrespective of their sex, age, ethnicity or religion
- 3StreamingWhere children are separated in different teaching groups based on their ability
- 4MeritocracyPeople are rewarded based on their talents and abilities rather than their social background
- 5Material deprivationLacking basic necessities due to poverty e.g. living in overcrowded housing depresses school performance
- 6Cultural deprivationInadequate socialisation in the home e.g. little or no motivation & parents take no interest in school achievement
- 7Immediate gratificationPreference for immediate pleasure or reward without considering the long term consequences
- 8Cultural capitalDesired knowledge, language and social skills which aid student's success in school. Middle class parents pass this on to their children by trips to museums etc.
- 9Economic capitalMoney or wealth which allows people to buy educational success e.g. rich parents can send their children to private schools
- 10Hidden curriculumThings learnt at school which are not openly or formally taught e.g. obedience
- 11Formal curriculumThings learnt at school which are openly taught e.g. subjects in the national curriculum
- 12LabellingProcess of attaching a preconceived idea of a student on to them e.g. troublemaker
- 13StereotypingPreconceived (often negative) idea about a person e.g. all black boys are disruptive
- 14Self-fulfilling prophecyWhere students live up to predictions or labels placed on them by teachers
- 15Anti-school subculturesSet of attitudes and values that go against mainstream or pro-school subcultures e.g. a high value is placed on truancy
- 16MarketisationProcess of opening schools up to the free market by creating competition between schools e.g. exam league tables
- 17EthnocentricConcerning only one cultural perspective & excluding all others e.g. only English history
- 18Primary socialisation Secondary socialisationPrimary - Learning of norms & values within family
Secondary - Learning of norms & values outside the family e.g. school - 19NormsNormal ways of behaving e.g. wearing clothes and not swearing at old people
- 20ValuesIdeas or beliefs that are felt to be important e.g achieving good grades
- 21False class-consciousnessNot being aware of your true class interests e.g. working class are not aware that they're being exploited
- 22Correspondence principalIdea that there is a strong relationship between the way that schools and workplaces are ran/organised e.g. both have hierarchies
- 23New vocationalismEducational policies that are concerned with imparting work based skills and qualifications
- 24Social controlProcess by which society gets people to conform or behave as they want them to e.g. detentions in school to stop lateness
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