Deferred gratification – making sacrifices now for greater rewards later (middle-class culture)
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Educational triage – the process whereby schools sort pupils into ‘hopeless cases’, ‘those who will pass anyway’ and ‘those with potential to pass’, and then concentrate their efforts on the last of these groups as a way to boost the school’s tables
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Ethnocentric– seeing or judging things in a biased way from the viewpoint of one particular culture
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External factors – factors outside the education system such as the influence of home and family, background and wider society
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Feminisation of education – the belief that the school celebrates qualities more closely associated with girls, and has stopped nurturing ‘masculine’ traits
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Fordism – a type of industrial production based on a detailed division of labour, using closely supervised, low-skilled workers and assembly-line technology to mass produce standardized goods
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Gender – the social and cultural characteristics of men and women – learned through socialisation
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Globalisation – the idea that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected and barriers are disappearing
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Ideological state apparatus – Maintain rule of the bourgeoisie by controlling people’s ideas, values and beliefs
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Immediate gratification – a preference for immediate pleasure or reward without regard for the longer-term consequences
