Education revision AQA A level

What two theories argue we live in a meritocracy

• New Right and functionalist

• Feminist and Marxist

• Feminist and labelling theories

• Functionalism and Marxism

What Marxist theory argues that school mirrors the work place

• role allocation

• Correspondence principle

• Social Solidarity

• Legitimization of the patriarchy

What key term refers to the idea that there is only one way to be male

• Toxic femininity

• Reinforcement of the instrumental role

• Hegemonic masculinity

• Gender domain

Which feminist sociologist argued that girls aspirations are now more career centered

• Diane Reay

• Delphy and Leonard

• Anne Oakley

• Sue Sharpe

What key term could you use to explain that girls do better in education due to the way they have been socialized?

• Verbal appellations

• Canalisation

• Gendered domain

• Toxic masculinity

Who argued that the role of education is to 'sift and sort' students to ensure the best people are in the right job.

• Davis and Moore - Role allocation

• Bowles and Gintis

• Durkheim

• Parsons

Which sociologists believed that education should act like a business to increase competition and in turn raise standards

• Charles Murray

• Durkheim

• Chubb and Moe

• Oakley

What term means that education is a tool to ensure that the proletariat know their place in society and the bourgeois are taught to retain control

• School operates in the long shadow of work

• Role allocation

• Dominant ideology

• Ideological state apparatus

What key term refers to Durkheim's idea that education prepares you for wider society?

• Society in miniature

• Miniature society

• Tiny town

• Back to basics

What term refers to the norms and values that are given by school that the family do not provide

• particularistic values

• family values

• universalistic standards

• dodgy standards