SOC 153 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Formal System, Cultural Learning, Social Integration

• School: Miami University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 153
• Professor: Steven Nelson

Document Summary

Education: group"s formal system of teaching knowledge, values and skills. Standardized texts promoted patriotism and teach principles of the government. At the beginning education represented the disunity over the country. Mandatory education laws: law requiring all children to attend school until a minimum age. Cultural capital: privileges accompanying a social location that helps someone in life. Credential societies: use of diplomas and degrees to determine who is eligible for job, even though the degree or diploma may be unrelated to the work. Cultural transmission of values: process of transmitting values from one group to another. Gatekeeping: process by which education opens and closes doors of opportunity. Tracking: sorting students into different groups with the basis on perceived abilities. Hidden curriculum: refers to attitudes, values and written rules that are taught through the curriculum. Correspondence principle: sociological principles that schools correspond to the social structure of society. Self fulfilling prophecy: false assertion that becomes true because it was predicted.