Sociology of Education (ASE 4e)

2. A less intensive form of parenting, more common among working class parents, that relies less on investing lots of time and money in each individual child’s success.
4. Belief that anyone can succeed through education and hard work.
6. The obvious, intended functions of an institution.
8. Segregation of schools enforced by law.
10. Segregation of schools created by residential segregation.
11. Concentration of large numbers of low-income students of color in particular schools.
15. Resources people access through their relationships or social networks.
16. Process through which schools perpetuate the class structure.
17. Unintended or unrecognized functions of an institution.

1. A practice in which families, particularly in the middle class, carefully and deliberately prepare their children for future success.
3. Unofficial messages to students that are communicated through rules, routines, arrangements of classrooms, and interactions.
5. Process of gaining knowledge and skills.
7. Differences in academic outcomes between groups of students. ᇟ Opportunity gap–Differences in opportunities and resources available to groups of students.
9. Privately run but publicly funded schools.
12. A category that can take on the appearance of “scientific fact,” but is actually the product of society and culture.
13. Process of sorting students into different groups based on ideas about ability, achievement, or prospects.
14. of dividing students into groups, often based on ideas about intelligence or achievement.