Sociology is a study of? - ✔️✔️Social systems that should be investigated as an
interrelated whole.
Theorists argue that education is? - ✔️✔️A means of shaping learners' charaters.
The Sociology of education... - ✔️✔️Examines the relationship between the school,
politics, economics and culture.
What are the aspects that Ballantine & Hammock consider part of education? - ✔️✔️The
ability to think creatively.
The cultivation of global mindset.
The provision of training in problem solving.
Respect for others.
What contributed towards the development of new social patterns in society? - ✔️✔️The
development of technology and the growth of mass media.
What is the latent function Functionalist suggests that schools have? - ✔️✔️Produces
people who share economic and political practices and people who share the cultural
practices and norms of society.
Highly complex, industrialised societies tend to? - ✔️✔️Establish a system of universal,
compulsory public education and ensure that role differentiation is achieved.
Political socialisation refers to ? - ✔️✔️A persons political loyalty is widened beyond the
local group and political loyalty widened to include the state.
Some functionalists argue that racial minorities in society must? - ✔️✔️Assimilate into the
dominant culture of society and adjust to the dominant culture of the school.
Functionalists believe that social class inequalities are? - ✔️✔️Necessary as they
motivate people to take on important positions.
Conflict theorist argue that schools? - ✔️✔️Are not a social benefit and that they prepare
people to become compliant workers in a capitalist economy.
Conflict theorists suggests that IQ ( Intelligence Quotient) tests? - ✔️✔️Favour the
affluent classes and are culturally biased.
The term "gender differences" in the context of conflict theory means that men? -
✔️✔️Gain power over property and gain power over woman and suppress woman.
According to conflict theorists, the racial order in society? - ✔️✔️Is inextricably tied to
class stratification
According to Bowles and Gintis what are the components of hidden curriculum? - ✔️✔️A
passive acceptance of hierarchy and the fragmentation of school subjects.
Explicit components of symbolic interactionism are? - ✔️✔️Interpretation, action and
constructivism
Constructavists contend that knowledge can be labelled as? - ✔️✔️Personally
constructed and socially mediated.
For a symbolic interactionist, gender is something which is? - ✔️✔️Constantly made up
and reproduced through social interaction.
What conditions need to be met if racial prejudice is to be reduce? - ✔️✔️Social norms
favouring equality must be agreed upon.
Contact must be between individuals of equal status.
Contact must be sustained.
The symbolic interactionist approach to minority groups is that they? - ✔️✔️Form their
identity because of socio-historical change
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