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| The social institution responsible for the sytematic transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure. |
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| Functionalist Perspective on Education |
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| Tends to view education asa very important part of society; contemporary functionalists believe that education teaches U.S. values. |
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| Conflict Perspective on Education |
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| tends to view schools as institutions that “perpetuate” social inequality in terms of class, gender, ethnicity, and race because as groups seek to maintain their position of “privilege” |
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| Bourdieu’ s term for people’s social assets, including values, beliefs, attitudes, and competencies |
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| the assignment of students to specific curriculum groups and courses on the basis of their test scores, previous grades, or both |
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| transmission of cultural values and attitudes, such as conformity and obedience to authority, through implied demands found in rules, routines, and school regulations |
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| a process of social selection in which class advantage and social status are linked to the possession of academic qualifications |
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| Symbolic interactionist perspective on education |
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| tends to focus on the communication patterns in the classroom as well as how labeling can affect students’ self-concept |
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| Labeling and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy |
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| symbolic interactionist view labeling (identifying others based on behavior or other factors) as it occurs between those of have the power and status to “label” individuals and those who are labeled. |
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| a system of beliefs, symbols, and rituals, based on some, sacred or supernatural realm, that guides human behavior, gives meaning to life, and unites believers into a community |
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| those aspects of life that are supernatural or “holy” |
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| everyday, non-religious, secular, or “worldly” components of life |
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| the belief that plants, animals, or other elements of the natural world are endowed with spirits or life forces having an effect on events in society. |
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| the process by which religious beliefs, practices, and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture |
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| set of beliefs, rituals, and symbols that makes society’s values sacred |
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| a religious organization that is so integrated into the dominant culture that it claims just about everyone as a member |
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| a large, bureaucratically organized religious organization that tends to seek accommodation with the larger society in order to maintain some degree of control over it |
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| a large, organized religion characterized by accommodation to society but frequently lacking in the ability or intention to dominate society |
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| a relatively small religious group that has broken away from another religious organization to renew what is views as the original version of the faith |
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| a religious group with practices and teachings outside the dominant cultural and religious traditions of a society |
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