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Sociology A level- Education June 2024 Exam with Answers
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Sociology A level- Education June 2024Exam with Answers
Compensatory Education - Answer>> Additional educational
help given to socially disadvantaged groups to enable them to
have equal educational opportunities
Comprehensive Education - Answer>> A secondary or middle
school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the
basis of academic achievement of aptitude.
Correspondence Principle - Answer>> A sociological theory that
posits a close relationship between social standing and the
educational system.
Counter-School Culture - Answer>> An anti-school subculture
that goes against the main culture (norms and values) of the
school. (Students not doing homework, disrupting lessons, and
breaking school rules.) They tend to be in the bottom streams and
invariable working class. They gain their status by doing
disruptive things as the school system has labelled the mas
'failures'.
Culture Capital - Answer>> Non-financial social assets that
promote social mobility beyond economic means.
Ex: education, intellect, style of speech, dress, or physical
appearance
Cultural Reproduction - Answer>> Bourdieu
The major role of the education system. The reproduction of the
culture of the dominant classes. These groups have the power to
impose meanings and as legitimate. They are able to define their
own culture as worthy of being sought and possessed and to
, establish it as the basis of knowledge in the education system.
(The transmission of existing cultural values and norms from
generation to generation.)
Deferred Gratification - Answer>> (Middle class subculture)
Putting off today's pleasures for future gains
Immediate Gratification - Answer>> (Working class subculture)
Getting pleasures now, rather than putting them off for the future
Material Deprivation - Answer>> Poverty and a lack of material
necessities such as adequate housing
Cultural Deprivation - Answer>> The theory that working class
children are inadequately socialized, therefore, they lack the skills
they need to do well in education.
Deschooling - Answer>> Illich
An alternative form of education based on the abolition of formal
schools.
Educational Acievement - Answer>> A narrow interpretation of
this is the gaining of different levels of educational qualification.
A concept that disagrees with some of the functionalist views on
education.
Elaborated School Codes - Answer>> A pattern of speech
thought to characterize the complex structure of middle-class
language.
Restricted School Codes - Answer>> The language spoken by
working-class people, in which meaning is dependent on context,
is often implicit, and in which sentence structure is not developed.
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