Education

• correspondence principle - when the school mirrors the workplace through routine and obedience
• social policy - a plan or action by the government to improve or reform society
• streaming - dividing students into different groups based on a general assessment of their ability rather than their performance in a particular subject
• setting - dividing students into different groups for particular subjects based on their ability in subjects
• material deprivation - lack of basic necessities such as textbook, school uniform, school bag, school shoes
• ethnocentric curriculum - subjects taught within schools or universities in a biased way from the point of view of one culture
• Institutional racism - when an organisation fails to provide service or discriminates because of someone’s ethnic background
• Service class - professionals, administrators and managers
• Intermediate class - clerical or sales, self-employed and lower grade technicians and foremen
• Working class - manual workers in industry and agriculture
• Formal curriculum - things that are directly taught in schools, mainly through the National Curriculum
• Hidden Curriculum - things are indirectly taught in education (rules, values and routines)
• Social mobility - the ability of moving up or down the social class ladder
• State school -

  • funded by the government
  • free to attend
  • teach national curriculum
• Independent school -

  • not funded by government
  • parents pay for child to attend
  • don't have to teach national curriculum
• Canalisation is gender socialisation through the interaction of toys and objects
• cultural capital is the attitudes and values that the middle class provide for their children
• cultural deprivation is working class children lack the correct values and attitudes from socialisation to succeed in school
• de-schooling is the idea that the education system should be abolished
• an ethnography is the study of people's culture and practices in everyday settings
• marketisation is the policy of bringing market forces and competition into education
• particularistic standards - in the family, children are judged against the standards and rules of their particular family
• social cohesion is the feeling of belonging to a wider society
• a tripartite system is the division of secondary schools into three types of school - grammar, technical and modern
• universalistic standards are where people are judged by the standards of wider society