SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Concerted Cultivation, The Hidden Curriculum, Annette Lareau

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Schlaerth Christian

Document Summary

Social mobility: social mobility is a person"s movement over time from one class to another, upward vs. Cultural capital an class reproduction: according to the sociologist pierre bourdieu, students come to school with different amounts of cultural capital. The term cultural capital refers to non-financial social assets: the educational system teaches and reinforces values that sustain the elite"s position in society. Students who attended independent private high schools had higher sat scores than public school students, which gave independent school students an advantage in getting into elite colleges. College graduates are more upwardly mobile from the bottom and less likely to fall from the top and middle. The hidden curriculum: a study of five elementary schools in different communities found: Schools for working-class students emphasize procedures and rote memorization. Schools for middle-class students stress the processes involved in getting the right answer. Schools for affluent students focus on activities in which students express their own ideas.