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Sociology Education
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10/16/2016

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FORMAL EDUCATION
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Education delivered by specially created institutions such as schools and colleges
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INFORMAL EDUCATION
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Education delivered by non-specialised institutions such as the family, work or religious groups.
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CURRICULUM
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Everything which is taught within the school in terms of knowledge, skills, understanding and values
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OFFICIAL CURRICULUM
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That which is taught in schools according to its stated aims eg numeracy and literacy.
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SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
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A sense of community and a feeling that you belong in society, a shared culture.
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ANOMIE
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A state of normlessness in which there are no guidelines for behaviour
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DIVISION OF LABOUR
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The different types of jobs people perform in society
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PARTICULARISTIC STANDARDS
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Standards or rules that only apply to one person/family/group
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UNIVERSALISTIC STANDARDS
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Standards or rules that apply to everyone
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ASCRIBED STATUS
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Status/characteristics you are born with eg your sex and ethnicity
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ACHIEVED STATUS
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A status/position you have gained through your own efforts eg qualifying as a doctour
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AFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS
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Relationships based on love/affection
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INSTRUMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS
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Relationships based on mutual self interest
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MERITOCRACY
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A system in which everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and where individuals rewards and status are achieved by their own efforts rather than ascribed by their class, gender or ethnicity. Also known as equality of opportunity
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SOCIAL MOBILITY
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Being able to move up or down the social class system eg from working class to middle class
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ROLE ALLOCATION
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Sifting and sorting people by their skills to match them to occupations they are suited to
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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
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Education which trains people for specific jobs or occupational areas eg NVQs and BTECs
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MARKETISATION
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Making schools compete against each other in an educational market
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PARENTOCRACY
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Rule by parents- giving parents more choice over what schools to send their children to; an ideology of parental choice of school
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SELECTION BY MORTGAGE
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The way in which catchment areas benefit those who can afford to buy a house in a desirable area, which usually have the best state schools in them
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FUNDING FORMULA
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The system where schools receive an equal amount of funding per student they enrol
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REPRESSIVE STATE APPARATUSES
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Things used by the bourgeoisie to control the proletariat through force or the treat of it eg the police and the army
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IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARATUSES
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Things used by the bourgeoisie to control the proletariat by controlling their ideas and beliefs eg education and religion
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CORRESPONDING PRINCIPLE
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How the organisation and control in school mirrors the workplace in a capitalist society
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HIERARCHY
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An organisation or social structure based of a pyramid of senior and junior positions; a power structure
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ALIENATION
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Where a group feels isolated/frustrated because they lack the power to control their own lives. In school, children have no say over their timetable, the rules they must follow etc. In work, workers have no say over what is produced
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HIDDEN CURRICULUM
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The things taught in schools which are not on the timetable eg obeying authority and being punctual
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COUNTER SCHOOL CULTURE
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A group of students who oppose the values of education. They mess around in lessons,play truant and taunt students
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STRATIFICATION
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The way in which individuals are divided into levels of status such as the class system
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CULTURAL CAPITAL
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The knowledge, attitudes, values, taste and abilities which the middle class translate to their children
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ECONOMIC CAPITAL
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Possessing money and wealth eg property
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EDUCATIONAL CAPITAL
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Possessing qualifications- the higher the level of qualification you have the more educational capital you possess
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VALUE CONSENSUS
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An agreement about what rules/beliefs to have in society, a shared culture
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NEW VOCATIONALISM
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A movement from the 1980's onwards which aimed to focus the school curriculum to better meet the needs of the economy
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