SOC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hidden Curriculum, Symbolic Interactionism, Smart People
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Normative education and the creation of passive citizens. The idea that people with better iq, skills, talent, and merit will rise to the top. If you do not reach the top, you are not good enough. Counter-argument : not everyone has the same resources or starts at the same place. An even playing field where anyone can come from different racial groups and. Teaching patterns of behavior that are not taught. Raising your hand, being dismissed after the bell rings. The idea that if you work hard enough, you will achieve anything. A way of dividing students according to their academic ability or future plans. Through the process of education, people will rise to the top, stay neutral, or sink to the bottom and it will translate into life after college. Smart people = rise to the top. Does not agree with the structural-functionalist perspective. No opinion on how school works to reproduce inequality or education as the great equalizer.
