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1
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Which theorists think education helps maintain social mobility

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Functionalism

2
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Which theorists think education justifies the capitalist system

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Marxists

3
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What is Ideological State Apparatus (ISA)

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Education passes on norms and values from ruling class

4
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How does Ideological State Apparatus teach norms and values

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Family, law, media, religion, education system

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What happens if ISA fails?

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Repressive State Apparatus

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What is Repressive State Apparatus

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Physical control through institutions such as police, justice system and military

7
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What effect does ISA have on RSA

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The better ISA works the less RSA is needed

8
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Education serves the needs of industrial society with advanced division of labour

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Functionalist

9
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Education serves needs of capitalist social

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Marxism

10
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Education provides people with social mobility

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Functionalist

11
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Education persuades young people to accept their class origin

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Marxism

12
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Society is based on inequality, exploitation and conflict

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Marxism

13
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Schools passed patriarchal values which disadvantage girls and women

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Feminism

14
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Myth of meritocracy

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Marxism

15
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Society in miniature - is this good or bad

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Functionalists & good

16
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Hidden curriculum

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  • values
  • manors
  • sharing
  • gender roles
  • competition
  • punctuality
  • rules
  • expectations
17
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Material deprivation

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Lack of money and the things money can buy

18
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self-fullfilling prophecy

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People acting in response to predictions of their behaviour, making the prediction come true

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Labelling

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Defining a group or person in a specific way

20
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Social capital

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The social networks of influence and support people have

21
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Cultural deprivation

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The idea students fail due to lack of norms and values from home

22
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Restricted speech codes

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A form of language that takes for granted shared understanding, limited explanations and use of vocabulary

23
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Elaborated speech codes

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A form of language that involves careful explanations and detail

24
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Social class subcultures

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The distinctive norms and values shared by social classes

25
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Compensatory education

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Extra help for those coming from disadvantaged backgrounds

26
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Cultural capital

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Knowledge, language, attitudes and values that can be turned into material rewards

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Halo effect

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When pupils are stereotyped based on earlier impressions and are rewarded or favoured/penalised in the future

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Hidden curriculum

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Attitudes and behaviours taught through school organisations and rules

29
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Ideal pupil

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White, middle class female 
Teachers evaluate pupils based on this
30
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Fatalistic

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Accepting the situation rather than trying to fix it

31
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Immediate gratification

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Taking pleasures now rather then making sacrifices for the future

32
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Present time gratification

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Living for the moment rather then planning for the future

33
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Education triage; what three groups do teachers place children in

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  • those likely to succeed
  • those who have a chance
  • those who do not have a chance
34
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Differentiation

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Teachers rank students into groups

35
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Polarisation

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Students become divided into two groups

  • top set
  • bottom set
36
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Polarisation top set

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  • achieve highly
  • conform to rules
  • enter higher tiered
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Polarisation bottom set

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  • do not achieve highly
  • break rules
  • lower papers
  • are not encouraged
38
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People premium

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Money per student from disadvantaged background

39
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Compulsory education policies

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  • bursary
  • free school meals
  • free travel
40
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Vocationalism

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Work based educational training of skills/work to developer employable skills

41
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Bridge

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Educations offers a bridge between home and society

42
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Social solidarity

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Feeling although you belong somewhere

43
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Meritocracy

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Everyone is given a equal opportunity in the education system

44
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Globalisation

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Increased global mobility and creating more diversity of ethnicity and religion

45
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Parentocaracy

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Parents have choice over their children’s education

46
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3 impacts of globalisation on education

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  • schools now teach about diversity and religion
  • more global mobility so more migrants/ethnic&religous groups within schools
  • education copies global methods
47
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Material factors class difference in achievement

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  • material (Uniform/ ostresized) & cultural dep
  • lack finically support, paid work over revision, travel money; fear of dept
  • poor environment/ link living standards