SOC101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Murray Bookchin, Hidden Curriculum, Tatts Group
16 Jan 2019
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Department
Course
Professor
Assimilation: transitioning into dominant culture.
Monoculturalism: one dominant culture, opposite of multiculture.
Hidden Curriculum: we &don’t know the goal of the education system.
Latent Function & Dysfunction: adopting a structural-functionalist view such as hidden curriculum and
teaching everyone the norms of society.
Tracking: groups divided into categories, so they can be assigned in groups to various classes
~Michael Foucalt: docile body: group taught to act a certain way. Hierarchal observation: people
controlled through observations (priso, scho). Normalizing judge: people judged with how their actions
rank with others. The examination: checks peoples average scores, one’s who aren’t average are
deviant. Disqualified knowledge: inadequate to their task.
Credentialism: indigenous people can’t educate about their culture because they don’t have certificate.
Institutional racism: teachers not trained on aboriginal stuff, they had to learn it on their own.
Adjunct Professor: part time teacher (usually prepares more than full-time, get paid half).
Access without mobility: people who find uni or coll hard take online courses.
Commodification: online schools using education to earn money.
Marxist: Alienation: people told what to do and how to do it. Boss has total control.
Instrumental education: course directed towards limited set of tasks (online schoo).
Critical Education: analysis of ideas & ideally classroom discussions.
Social Distance: if you know the instructor, less likely to plagiarize.
Environmental sociologist: enviro is deeply embedded in social context.
Operationalizing envmenlism: studying enviro, pollution needs to be operationalized, the definitions
can be politicized.
Vested interest: social or financial party has result of scientific study (smoke & health risk).
Social ecology: Murray Bookchin: enviro problems are socially pattered.
Sociological Imagination: wright mills: think yourself from familiar routines of everyday life and look at
them anew.
Social change: people experienced dramatic change in life make changes to adapts.
~Analysis of social change: Modernism: Change is good, better than old. Conservatism: change shows
society is failing. Postmodernism: change helps or destroys groups. Evolution: social change happens to
fit the social enviro. Fashion: change happens for changes sake (tatts, glasses).
Social Darwinism: society naturally evolves from simple to complex, only strong ones triumph.
Document Summary
Hidden curriculum: we &don"t know the goal of the education system. Latent function & dysfunction: adopting a structural-functionalist view such as hidden curriculum and teaching everyone the norms of society. Tracking: groups divided into categories, so they can be assigned in groups to various classes. ~michael foucalt: docile body: group taught to act a certain way. Hierarchal observation: people controlled through observations (priso, scho). Normalizing judge: people judged with how their actions rank with others. The examination: checks peoples average scores, one"s who aren"t average are deviant. Credentialism: indigenous people can"t educate about their culture because they don"t have certificate. Institutional racism: teachers not trained on aboriginal stuff, they had to learn it on their own. Adjunct professor: part time teacher (usually prepares more than full-time, get paid half). Access without mobility: people who find uni or coll hard take online courses. Commodification: online schools using education to earn money.
