| Question | Answer |
| What are the three aspects of the functionalist view on education? | Socialization, Occupational training, and social control |
| What is socialization give to kids in school? | passes down moral values, ethics, politics, religious beliefs, habits, and norms (elements of culture) |
| Occupational training? | Job training is passed down to younger gens. |
| Social Control? | Control of society that causes a desired latent function |
| Latent functions | subtle consequences caused by an institutions activities. |
| What's an example of a latent function from social control? | Kids being put into school. Latent function is that they are kept off the streets and trained for jobs. |
| Conflict view on Education | Competition for power. Education isn't dispersed equally and continues inequality of classes in our society. |
| Credentialism | When employers avoid hiring someone because of their race or gender but blame it on their lack of education. |
| Symbolic interaction on education | Teachers apply expectancy theory |
| What are three main indicators of one's socioeconomic status (SES) | level of schooling, current income, and type of occupation |
| What are some unexpected drawbacks after you receive your education | college degrees are less rare, less pay based on gender and race |
| What is educational deflation and who came up with it? | college degrees mean less because they are less rare. -Boudon |
| is upward mobility easy with an education? | No, most pay is based on social class origin. Lower classes are blocked from upward mobility. |
| What does the ACT and SAT truly reveal? | social class of one's parents. Scores are higher with the family income |
