100% satisfaction guarantee Immediately available after payment Both online and in PDF No strings attached
logo-home
Summary SOC1005S Exam Notes: Education section $5.51
Add to cart

Summary

Summary SOC1005S Exam Notes: Education section

 175 views  0 purchase
  • Course
  • Institution

summary of the education section of soc1005s information taken from the textbook and my lecture note

Preview 5 out of 17  pages

  • June 23, 2017
  • 17
  • 2015/2016
  • Summary
avatar-seller
Structure and Agency
Agency
 A person’s free will
 Not influenced by society


Structure
 Influences a person’s decisions
o Resulting in a lack of agency/free will
 Recurring pattern of social behaviour
 The ordered interrelationships between the different elements of a social
system or society
o Norms
o Values
o Social roles
 Institutions can influence these elements
o Kinship
o Religion
o Economic institutions
o Political institutions

Structures affecting schooling outcomes
Economic resources
• How expensive a school can the family afford?
• Can the family afford enough food to send the pupil to school well-fed?
• Can the family afford electricity and is the house large enough for the
pupil to homework in the evenings?
Political resources
• Do people with few economic resources have the political power to
challenge this?
• Who, for example, makes decisions about the schooling system?
Other resources
 Nutritional choice
o What kinds of food?
 Parental encouragement and guidance
 Assistance with homework?
 Parental school involvement
 Do parents understand/can they teach their children how the education
system works
o How to do well in school
o Or how to get access to a better school?

,Structure affecting SA youth’s aspirations
 Perception of opportunity structure?
o Do young people believe that they can create a better life, climb the
socio-economic ladder?
 Economic conditions in the future
o higher education = better income
o does the prospect of a lower income, or unemployment influence
aspirations?
 Family
o To what extent does the family influence youth’s aspirations?
 Attitudes and behaviour in the community
o Does everyone support education?
o Do people support youth, or rather hold them back?

,Theories of inequality in education
Basil Bernstein: significance of language
 Different classes have different language use patterns
o Upper class patterns were more valued and more effective in
school
o Influences the ability of these groups to succeed in schools
 Therefore upper class advantaged and lower-class disadvantaged
o Reproduces class structure in society
 Through education
 Because of language


Pierre Bourdieu: cultural capital and ‘habitus’
Cultural capital
 Passed on from one generation to another
 Results in social and cultural reproduction
 Examples
o Cultural background
o Knowledge
o Thoughts
o Behaviour/style
o Tastes
o Skills
2 dimensions of cultural capital
 Directly instrumenal dimensions
o Knowledge of how systems work
 Education system
 Labour market
o Results
 People with high cultural capital at an advantage because of
this knowledge
 Indirectly instrumental/general dimensions
o Basis for classification
o Peoples’ tastes relating to high culture
 Types of music
 Forms of art
 Styles of clothing
 Speech
 Preferences of sports
o Results
 Classifies people
 Exclude and include
 Defines what class one belongs to
 Therfore also how others see you

,Social and cultural reproduction in and through education
In education
 Children from upper class background acquire knowledge enabling them
to succeed in school
 Schools are foreign cultural environments for lower class children
o Schools= upper class values and outlooks
o Lower class children= lower class values and outlooks
o Causes a clash
 Results
o Lower class disadvantaged in education
Through education
 Academic achievement= economic achievement traffic
 Because lower class disadvantaged in education, they disadvantaged in
economic achievement

, Education inequality in SA education
Racial inequality
 Higher levels of repetition among previously disadvantaged youth
 Generally previously disadvantaged graduates leave with lower levels of
education than their white peers


Reasons for inequality
All reasons notably influenced by one’s wealth/class
Quality of schools
 Shown to negatively impacts educational outcomes
 What determines school quality
o teacher qualifications
o teacher motivation
o teacher-pupil ratio
 Levels of schools
o Public schools
 Subsidised by government
 Learners pay little or no school fees
 Schools therefore poor
o Semi-private schools
 Subsidised by government
 Learners pay school fees to supplement subsidy
 School got more money to improve
 Middle level schools
o Private schools
 No subsidy
 Learners pay large school fees
 Exremely well funded because of the school fees
 Top level schools
 Class/wealth determines which level of school you can afford

Parental level of education
 Positive relations between parental level of education and education
outcomes
 Better educated parents
o place higher value on schooling
 willing to spend more on education
o more able to help children with school work
 Less educated parents
o Pass on unmotivating messages around education
 unknowingly or knowingly
 Because well educated people are more wealthy, wealth is a determinant
of your parents’ level of education

The benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:

Guaranteed quality through customer reviews

Guaranteed quality through customer reviews

Stuvia customers have reviewed more than 700,000 summaries. This how you know that you are buying the best documents.

Quick and easy check-out

Quick and easy check-out

You can quickly pay through credit card or Stuvia-credit for the summaries. There is no membership needed.

Focus on what matters

Focus on what matters

Your fellow students write the study notes themselves, which is why the documents are always reliable and up-to-date. This ensures you quickly get to the core!

Frequently asked questions

What do I get when I buy this document?

You get a PDF, available immediately after your purchase. The purchased document is accessible anytime, anywhere and indefinitely through your profile.

Satisfaction guarantee: how does it work?

Our satisfaction guarantee ensures that you always find a study document that suits you well. You fill out a form, and our customer service team takes care of the rest.

Who am I buying these notes from?

Stuvia is a marketplace, so you are not buying this document from us, but from seller byrondevin. Stuvia facilitates payment to the seller.

Will I be stuck with a subscription?

No, you only buy these notes for $5.51. You're not tied to anything after your purchase.

Can Stuvia be trusted?

4.6 stars on Google & Trustpilot (+1000 reviews)

53022 documents were sold in the last 30 days

Founded in 2010, the go-to place to buy study notes for 14 years now

Start selling
$5.51
  • (0)
Add to cart
Added