Sociology of Education Unit 08 What have traditional explanations of education suggested about attainment in schools? Learning targets: • According to Functionalists‚ education has three roles - socialization‚ skills provision and role allocation. • Education helps to support society by the socialisation of young people to cultural values. • Education categorizes people to the posts to which they are best suited according to their talents through the use of examinations
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References: Bowles‚ M. (2011). A history of the United States since 1865. San Diego‚ CA: Bridgepoint Education‚ Inc. David‚ C.W.A.‚ (1994‚ January). The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 and its Antecedents. The Journal of Negro History. 9(1)‚ 18-25. Retrieved from http://www
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References: Bowles‚ M. (2011). A history of the United States since 1865. San Diego‚ CA: Bridgepoint Education‚ Inc Goodman‚ D. (2010). The fourteenth amendment ’s effect on article IV‚ section 2‚ clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America History
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supporting women in the 1960s and 1970s. The results were women successfully engaging in certain jobs for the first time. Where women were once a minority‚ or excluded entirely‚ by 1980‚ they accounted for more than half of all undergraduate students”‚ (Bowles‚ 2011). Even with all the advancements of women‚ we should not forget about the challenges that we are still facing today. In the present day work force‚ women are still discriminated against due to the “glass ceiling”‚ a term used in describing
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References: Behrendt‚ Stephen (1999). "Transatlantic Slave Trade". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. New York Bowles‚ M. (2011). A History of the United States since .San Diego‚ CA: Bridgepoint Education. Rancis‚ Cahrles E. 2002‚ The Tuskegee Airmen The Men Who Changed a Nation‚ Brandon Publishing Company‚ Boston Van Cleve‚ George William (2010)‚ A Slave Holders’Union:
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References: Bowles‚ M. (2011). A history of the United States since 1865. San Diego‚ CA: Bridgepoint Education. Cole‚ J. H. (1995). Women pilots of World War II. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Cooper‚ J. M. (1990). Pivotal decades: The United States‚ 1900–1920
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made a significant effect on how our country is ran in this day and age. Though they were bitter rivals from different parties‚ they infused the presidency with new powers and changed the nation in ways few other presidents have‚ before or since (Bowles‚ 2011). Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson debated a political state of affairs that still effects government and industry in our nation today. The issue at hand was trusts. On one hand‚ Theodore Roosevelt thought that trusts are inevitable
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References: Bowles‚ Mark D. (2010)‚ Inro to Computer Literacy. Bridgepoint Education Inc. Sand Diego‚ retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu “I Robot” (2004). Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation‚ Mediastream Vierte Film GmbH & Co. Vermarktungs KG‚ Davis
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Discussion Paper No. 10-093 Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages Rémi Piatek and Pia Pinger Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1739746 Non-technical summary This paper investigates the impact of an individual’s level of locus of control‚ a concept commonly used in social psychology (Rotter‚ 1966)‚ on educational choices and wages. We establish that more internal individuals‚ i.e.‚ who believe that
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows how everyone in a society can be very similar and how it stunts the growth of the community. Being a fireman‚ Montag takes on the role of burning books and erasing knowledge from his community. The society took away the privilege of reading books a long time ago to ensure that everyone received the same information and that nobody would be smarter than anyone else. This made people very closed off to new ideas and materials given to them. People thought that being
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