- Subject:
- Sociology
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- Module
- Level:
- Community College / Lower Division
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- Ohio Open Ed Collaborative
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- Language:
- English
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Education Standards
How Did U.S. Students Perform on The Most Recent Assessments?
Schools & Social Inequality: Crash Course Sociology #41
Social and Cultural Capital at School
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
Apply the three major sociological perspectives to the issue of education and educational inequalities
Overview
OER Text Material
Understanding and Changing the Social World
This section provides a very basic overview of Functionalist (most detailed), Conflict (thin) and Symbolic Interactionist (thin) perspectives on education.
Supplementary Material (Videos and Reading)
- Schools & Social Inequality: Crash Course Sociology #41
Details how conflict theory helps explain how education perpetuates class, racial and gender inequalities. Discusses how cultural capital influences educational attainment.
- Education in Society: Crash Course Sociology #40
Abstract: [This video] explore[s] the history of education as a social institution, with a specific focus on how the US organizes its educational system. We’ll look at education through the lenses of some sociological paradigms: structural functionalist approaches (including some of the manifest and latent functions associated with education), and a symbolic interactionist approach to education that shows us how self-fulfilling prophecies in educational settings contribute to differences in academic outcomes for students.
- “Social and Cultural Capital at School” by Sally Raskoff in Everyday Sociology Blog, November 14, 2014
Cultural capital and education
Data
How Did U.S. Students Perform on The Most Recent Assessments?
Reports by state, national, public and private school on scores for a number of subjects.