Key Concepts
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- Created on: 04-12-20 18:12
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- Key Concepts On Education
- general concepts
- norms
- the expectations of how we should behave in society (based on values)
- values
- values and belifs are principles people foloow in society
- socialization
- learning the norms and values of society
- sanctions
- rewards or punishments given by society, an institution or an individual
- social control
- the methods society uses to control the behavior of individuals
- norms
- functionalist concepts
- particularistic values
- rules and values that give priority to personal relationships
- universal values
- rules and values that apply equally to all members of society regardless of who they are
- ascribed status
- status that is given to individual at birth and usually cannot be changed
- archieved status
- status achieved through individuals own efforts
- role allocation
- roles given to you in society (jobs, roles) based on skills, hard work and merit
- equality of oppertunity
- every child regardless of social class, background, ability to pay school fees should have equal ability to develop talents or abilities
- meritocracy
- positions are achieved based on your own skills rather than who you know or your family
- particularistic values
- marxism concepts
- myth of meritocracy
- idea that everyone has the same change to do well (meritocracy) is not true and a myth
- hidden curriculum
- everything we learnt at school which is not actually part of he curriculum eg to be obedient
- correspondence principle
- school is deliberately made to be similar to work like in workplace, school has a hiarchy taught through hidden curriculum
- ideological state apparatus
- indicate institutions such as education which were formally out of state control to transmit values of state government
- counter school culture
- anti school subculture consists of students who rebel against school for various reasons meaning they have their own sets of values and norms
- legitimizes class inequality
- permits different treatment of people based on their social group memeberships
- reproduces class inequality
- process in which middle class children succeed in education going onto well paid middle class jobs, same for working class children
- new right concepts
- marketisation
- introduction of markets, competition and profit of public services such as education or health
- consumer choice
- individuals being able so shop around and choose a school in the same way as buying food/clothes from different shops
- marketisation
- myth of meritocracy
- general concepts
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