Sociology of Education mid-unit knowledge check

Things we learn in school but we are not directly taught through the official curriculum

• differences in achievement

• meritocracy

• institutional racism

• hidden curriculum

The idea that everyone has an equal chance to succeed as long as they work hard regardless of class, gender and ethnicity

• correspondence principle

• meritocracy

• false consciousness

• labelling

When a meaning or definition is attached to someone or something e.g. "bad student"

• social mobility

• labelling

• subculture

• self-fulfilling prophecy

When someone starts to believe in their label and becomes the label they have been given e.g. when a student is labelled as a bad student so they begin to behave badly

• meritocracy

• correspondence principle

• self-fulfilling prophecy

• labelling

When a student lacks the norms, values, language and attitudes needed to succeed in education

• speech code

• cultural capital

• cultural deprivation

• values

When a parent has a good attitude towards education and a good understanding of the education system

• cultural capital

• economic capital

• cultural deprivation

• social network

The process of running schools like businesses by creating competition between them e.g. through league tables and Ofsted reports

• correspondence

• meritocracy

• competitive prices

• marketisation

The type of school that receives government funding but is run by business managers and a trust

• academy

• private

• comprehensive

• free

When we are at school we learn that we are the same as everyone else and are treated the same as everyone else (Functionalist)

• hidden curriculum

• universalistic standards

• marketisation

• ethnocentric curriculum

The Marxist concept for the idea that we are not all given equal opportunities to succeed in education, and that this is a lie we are told so that we think everything is okay.

• hidden curriculum

• myth of meritocracy

• particularistic standards

• subculture