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the social institution responsible for the systematic transmission of knowledge, skills and culturaly values within a formally organized structure.
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education
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Pierre Bourdieus term for peoples social assets, including values, beliefs, attitudes, and competencies in language and culture.
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cultural capital
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the practice of assigning students to specific curriculum groups and courses on the basis of their test scores, previous grades, or other criteria.
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tracking
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the transmission of cultural values and attitudes, such as conformity and obedience to authority, through implied demands found in the rule, routines, and regulations of schools.
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hidden curriculum
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a process of social selection in which class advantage and social status are linked to the possession of academic qualifications.
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credentialism
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a system of beliefs, symbols, and rituals, based on some sacred or supernatural realm, that guides human behavior, gives meaning to life, and unites believers into a community.
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religion
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those aspects of life that are extraordinary or supernatural.
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sacred
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the everday, secular or worldly aspects of life.
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profane
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the belief that palnts, animals or other elements of the natural world are endowed with spirits or life forces having an effect on events in society.
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animism
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the process by which religous beliefs, practices, and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
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secularization
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the set of beliefs, rituals, and symbols that makes sacred the values of society and places the nation in the context of the ultimate system of meaning.
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civil religion
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a religous organization that is so integrated into the dominant culture that it claims as its membership all members of a society.
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ecclesia
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a larger, bureucratically organized religous organization that tends to seek accommodation with the larger society in order to maintain some degree of control over it.
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church
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a large, organized religion characterized by accommodation to society but frequently lacking the ability or intention to dominate society.
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denomination
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a relatively small religous group that has broken away from another religous organization to renew what it views as the original version of the faith.
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sect
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a religous group with practicies and teachings outside the dominant cultural and religous traditions of a society.
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cult
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