Sociology Gcse - Education Key Words

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Academy

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A failed school that has been taken over by the government with private sponsors such as businesses or churches.

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Agencies of Social Control

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Groups or organizations in society that control or constrain people's behaviour and actions.

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Beacon School

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A school or college recognized as a centre of excellence which has the role of sharing its expertise with other schools or colleges.

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Comprehensive School

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Introduced in 1965 - a non-selective secondary schooling system that all children attend regardless of ability.

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Counter - School Subculture

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A group of people that rejects the norms and values of school and replaces with anti-school norms and values.

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Hidden Curriculum

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Things that's not formally taught in school such as valuing good attendance, obedience and conformity.

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Home Education

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Children being taught at their homes by parents or home tutors instead of going to school.

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Independent Sector

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Schools that charge fees and are not required to follow the same rules of a state school.

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Labelling

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The attaching of a characteristic or definition to an individual or group.

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Marketisation

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Policy of bringing market forces like competition, supply and demand.

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Material Deprivation

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Lack of resources due to financial or poverty situations. May include poor housing and inability to afford educational aids in education.

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Meritocracy (or meritocratic system)

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A system that everyone is seen having equal opportunity to succeed based on their ability and effort not social gender or ethnicity.

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Nature

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Idea of intelligence being inherited or genetic. Educational success is based on abilities the child is born with.

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Nuture

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idea of educational success being based on social background and factors such as social class, gender, ethnicity and peer groups.

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Official Curriculum

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Formal learning that takes place in schools. Includes subjects and courses studied.

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Private Schools

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A school that charge fees.

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Public Schools

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Older and more famous schools like Eton or Harrow.

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Social Mobility

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Where people go up or down between the layers in status or position on the stratification system.

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Specialist Schools

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Centres that excel in a particular subject like languages or technology. They raise standards of teaching and learning in these areas.

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Streaming

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Where students get separated into groups based on their abilities and then taught in these groups for all of the subjects.

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Tri-Partite System

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Created by 1944 Education Act - was a system that used the 11-plus to put children in specific schools based on their results and abilities such as grammar, secondary modern and technical.

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Vocational Education

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Work or career related curriculum.

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Self-fulfilling Prophecy

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Where a prediction is made on a student and get treated by the teacher based on this prediction which makes the student believe this and thus results to making the prediction come true.

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11-Plus Education

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National IQ test introduced by 1944 Education Act which is used to put students in certain schools from the tri-partite system.