Education And Work Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is a normalising agency
Practise, behaviours, ideas
Regulates behaviours
Sets standards
Established norms
How might education be inequal
Opportunities for some groups are not the same
What is the functionalist point of view of education
Reproducing status quo - ensure working class doesn’t aspire to be barrister etc
What is the cultural capital theory
Relationship between social and educational factors in school success. Inherited from families - power both symbolic and materialistic
What is self elimination
Cultural capital absorbed by school. From poorer families face alienation and self eliminate from education
What are teacher expectations for success
Assumptions about student outcomes based on social/cultural/class background
What is the language code
Bernstein 1975 different classes with different codes which affected school experience and life chances
What is ability streaming
Dividing students into groups that receive different instruction due to the perceived differences in academic ability. Teachers react to students according to stream they’re in. Oaks 1990 lower streams receive poorer education in quality of subjects types of teachers and textbooks available
Define work
Socially defined within social historical context, source of self identity and status
What is a profession
Prestigious white collar occupation requiring extensive formal education
What are the theories of work - Marx
Alienation-isolation-misery leads to powerlessness. Workers labour source, hired fired at will. Impact of alienation and mass production reducing need for skill and intelligence
What is durkheims theory of work
Division of labour - organic solidarity - perform different tasks dependent on one another - people have unlimited desires - not happy producing anomie
What is an anomie
Social disintegration, resolved from freely elected admin bodies representing workers
What is Fordism and Taylorism in regards to work
Perform competitive tasks that require little skill - employees use deskilling as control by technology - less opportunity to work at own pace
How does gender relate to work
Horizontal segregation (differing jobs), vertical segregation (status, pay)
How does feminism relate to work
Conflict between obtaining paid work opposed to unpaid domestic
Men doing more domestic, women still do more
Career interruptions, less likely to be promoted
What are the causes of unemployment
Frictional
Structural
Regional
Cyclical
What are the effect of unemployment
Devalues standard of life, pressure on wages
Less secure
Bargain power
Less willing to leave in satisfying jobs of fear of finding new job
Divisions in society increase
Increase in unemployment, decrease minority’s group life chances
What are the personal effects of unemployment
Financial hardship Loss of identity Purpose of life/direction Health deterioration Suicide Increase leisure not sub for work
What are the effects of unemployment on the community
Increased stress Less property value Marriage stress and divorce Less local economy Emergence of underclass Intergenerational unemployment
What is the aim of education
Good for economy
Trains young for employment
Help shape citizens
Law abiding young people
