Sociology Chapter 12 Vocabulary

nonacademic agenda that teaches discipline, conformity & cooperativeness

• integrative curriculum

• formal schooling

• hidden curriculum

• educational equality

capatacity for thinking abstractly

• cognitive ability

• manifest function

• latent function

• meritocracy

public schools that are operated like private schools by public school teachers & administrators

• charter schools

• magnet schools

• private schools

• voucher system

action that produces an intended result

• manifest function

• latent function

• multicultural education

• cooperative learning

approach to education based on student-teacher collaboration

• integrative curriculum

• hidden curriculum

• voucher system

• charter schools

placement of students in programs according to academic ability levels

• tracking

• self-fulfilling prophecy

• educational equality

• cognitive ability

educational curriculum that empahsizes differences among gender, ethnic & racial categories

• multicultural education

• cooperative learning

• hidden curriculum

• open classroom

public schools that focus on particular disciplines or areas

• magnet schools

• charter schools

• formal schooling

• for-profit schools

system in which rewards are based on relative performance

• competition

• meritocracy

• latent function

• cultural bias

system in which public school funds may be used to support public, private or religious schools

• voucher system

• charter schools

• magnet schools

• educational equality