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Sociology Exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| education | social institution responsible for systematic transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure |
| functionalist perspective on education | education serves several important functions in society, contributing to the stability and functioning of the social system as a whole |
| Manifest function | socialization, transmission of culture, social control, social placement, innovation |
| latent function | restricting activities, matchmaking + production of social networks |
| conflict perspective on education | education is viewed as a system that perpetuates and reproduces existing inequalities and power structures within society |
| cultural capital | social assets that include values, beliefs, attitudes and competencies in language and culture |
| tracking | practice of assigning students to specific curriculum groups + courses |
| hidden curriculum | transmission of cultural values and attitudes through the rules, routines, and regulations of schools |
| credentialism | process in which class advantage and social status are linked to possession of academic qualifications |
| symbolic interactionist perspective on education | education is viewed as a complex social process shaped by the interactions and interpretations of individuals within educational settings |
| problems in schools | unequal funding, school dropouts, violent incidents |
| opportunites + challenges in colleges | growing college enrollments, decreasing college funding, high cost of college education, racial diversity in college enrollment |
| what amendment pertains to religion? | 1st amendment |
| religion | social institution composed of a unified system of beliefs, symbols, and rituals |
| sacred | refers to aspects of life that are extraordinary or supernatural |
| profane | refers to everyday, secular, or worldly aspects of life |
| animism | belief that plants, animals, or other elements of natural world are endowed with spirits or life forces having an effect on events in society |
| secularization | process by which religious belief, practices, and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture |
| durkheim's functionalist perspective on religion focuses on what 3 functions | meaning + purpose, social cohesion + sense of belonging, social control |
| civil religion | refers to set of beliefs, rituals, symbols that makes sacred the values of society + places nation in context of ultimate meaning |
| conflict perspectives on religion | view religion as either igniter or retarder of social change |
| marx view on religion | ideologies are embodied in religious doctrines + political values |
| weber view on religion | religion could be catalyst to produce social change |
| symbolic interactionist on religion | focus on meaning that people give to religion |
| rational choice on religion | see religion as rational response to human needs |
| ecclesia | religious organization that so integrated into dominant culture that it claims as its membership all members of society |
| church | large, bureaucratically organized religious organization that tends to seek accommodation with larger society |
| denomination | large, organized religious characterized by accommodation to society |
| sect | relatively small religious group that has broken away from another religious organization to renew what it views as the original version of faith |
| cult | loosely organized religious group with practices and teaching outside dominant cultural and religious traditions of a society |
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