Sociology Education

The term formal education is defined by the text as:

• Learning about cultural values, norms, and expected behaviors through participation in a society.
• The education one receives at a private school, parochial school, or private college.
• An education that is accompanied by a tutor at all times.
• The learning of academic facts and concepts.

Which of the following is NOT a latent function of education?

• Political and social integration
• Courtship
• Working in groups
• Transmission of Culture

Which of the following is NOT a manifest function of education?

• Socialization
• Social Control
• Social Placement
• Social Networks

The concept hidden curriculum can be defined as:

• A type of nonacademic knowledge that one learns through informal learning and cultural transmission.
• The course objectives teachers incorporate into their syllabi after the semester has started.
• The emphasis on certificates or degrees to show that a person has a certain skill, has attained a certain level of education, or has met certain job qualifications.
• The unexpected subjects students take an interest in after being exposed to experts in the field.

Which of the following sociological perspectives argues that the educational system reinforces and perpetuates social inequalities arising from differences in class, gender, race and ethnicity?

• Symbolic interactionism
• Conflict theory
• Functionalism
• None of these

The term sorting can be defined as:

• A formalized system that places students on “tracks” (advanced, low achievers) that perpetuate inequalities.
• The process by which students are allowed to choose their own classes based on interest.
• Classifying students based on academic merit or potential.
• The use of education to improve one’s social standing.

When Ahmed is in 5th grade, he does poorly in math and science.  His teachers recommend him for lower-level classes throughout middle school in all subjects, and he’s not given the chance to excel elsewhere.  This process is known as:

• Tracking
• Grade inflation
• Feminism
• 1. Manifest function

What is Self-fulfilling prophecy?

• A prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true,

• When students of different abilities are put into different sets within specific subjects.

• When a group of students within a school hold values and norms that are at odds with that of the school as a whole.

• Splitting pupils into several different hierarchical groups which would stay together for all lessons.

Fill the missing word

___________________ is dividing an entire year-group into different groups for all subjects based on ability.

• Setting

• Streaming

• Mixed ability classes

• Differentiation

What is the hidden curriculum?

• Lessons which are learned but not openly intended

• Planned program of objectives, content, learning experiences, resources and assessment offered by a school.

• The subjects comprising a course of study in a school or college.

• All of the above