Final Flashcards
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What is a society?
A group of people who share the same culture and territory.
What are the three purposes of education?
Socialization, sorting, legitimization and organization of info
What are the three schooled society implications?
Every person can make a decision.
They can be reactive or proactive.
SES is not deterministic, but rather probabilistic as people don’t like to change.
What is the theory overview of the functionalist?
Stability, interconnected ness, and equilibrium
What is a schooled society?
It is where formal education has taken place, and it is a central view within the society and peoples lives.
What is a macro theory?
It looks at the big picture
What is a middle range theory?
It doesn’t look at the picture or the specifics.
What is a micro theory?
It looks at the specifics.
What sins the functinalist view?
They are the happy theory.
It looks at relationships between social structures.
Everything works together and agrees or else society would fail.
The natural state is to be healthy and stable.
Functionalist traditional vs. modern society
In the 1990s the society was change as religion was now on the decline. In the modern society, there was a rise of individualism. People were now making personal connections and helping themselves. They had the option to move to different socioeconomic statuses as they would be working at it themselves. The education system was built to keep things in place and give the societal views to all the students so they too could follow the societal rules.
Who was the theorist for the functionalist theory’s?
Emile Durkheim
What did Emile Durkheim believe?
Collective conscience:shared beliefs and moral attitudes that act as a used force within society.
He as a passionate and practical theorist. He tested out his theories and really cared about his students. He had a heart attack when his students went away because they were all dying. Society has to divide people up or it would fail. The education system holds up society instead of religion
What did the conflict theory believe?
They believed that society is always struggling for power, ands if a place had power it was because they had economic resources in scarce natural resources. They that society keeps the lower class lower and keeps giving the upper class more privileges. There will be conflict because of the way society is set up and from e underprivileged.
Capitalistic society: where the rich will contend to be rich while the lower classes have to work hard and sell their labour to pay their bills. They spend less time with their children making them suffer more.
What is a capitalistic society?
Divided by those in possession in power and those who are not. Those people who are not in power must sell their labour to be able to survive and pay their bills.
What is collective conscience?
Starred beliefs and moral attitudes that act as a unified force with society.
What theorist does the conflict theory have?
Karl Marx
What did Karl Marx believe?
He believed that society was set up to keep the poor in no power while keeping the rich rich.
He believed in the education workplace fit where everyone is taught the basic skills so everyone will be able to work in here fast food industry.
Ruling class ideology… Schools show the inequality in society. They schools keep reinforcing this inequality though.
Correspondence principle… Education system reinforces get status quo.
What is the ruling class ideology
Reinforces the idea that the society keeps the inequalities in place.
What is education workplace fit?
This is where everyone is trained to know the basics.
What is the correspondence principle?
Education system reinforces the inequalities in society, and this is where they are the Most visual.
What is the symbolic interaction it’s views? What is the educational focus?
They believe that society has many different symbols that could be pictures, languages, etc. that people place meaning to to allow them to create a world view and communicate with one another. Each person will have a different meaning depending on their own experiences. Ex. Marriage, cheating, aunt, etc.
Educational focuses is the socialization and the teachers influence within the classroom.
What is ability grouping?
It is where students are grouped in the classroom based on herein academic abilities. Most teachers are not aware they are doing this thus cannot stop it. It is mostly the newer teachers who do it without being aware.
What did Robert rosenthal believe and what theory did he belong to?
He looked at how teachers non verbal cue affected the children. Ht observed the self fulfilling prophecy and the looking glass self.
What theorist did symbolic interactionists have?
Robert mead and Charles Cooley