Myth of meritocracy - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Item B Until the 1980s, most education was provided by elected local education authorities, directed and funded by central government. However, the 1988 Education Reform Act began the marketisation of education, aimed at raising standards by increasing parental choice and competition between schools. After 2010, there was a substantial move towards the privatisation of education through policies such as the growth of chains of academies run by private businesses. Some sociologists claim that th...

MARK SCHEME – A-LEVEL SOCIOLOGY – 7192/1 – JUNE 2021 4 Qu Marking guidance Total marks 01 Outline two ways in which globalisation may have had an influence on educational policies in the UK. Two marks for each of two appropriate ways clearly outlined, or one mark for each appropriate way partially outlined. Answers may include: • involvement in international testing programmes such as PISA testing (1 mark); allow international comparison of standards (+1 mark) • traditional s...

SED2601 Study Questions & Answers 2022/2023. Outline two reasons why marketisation policies may produce inequality of educational achievement between social classes. Answer:  cream-skimming; successful schools can attract higher achievers, who are more likely to be middle-class.  silt-shifting; successful schools can avoid taking less able, largely working-class pupils, who thus end up in low-achieving schools. Question Outline three reasons for gender differences in educational ...

KIN 164 1-6. All Questions with accurate answers, Graded A. 2022/2023 updates Document Content and Description Below KIN 164 1-6. All Questions with accurate answers, Graded A. 2022/2023 updates Sociology of sport - ☑☑primarily a sub discipline of sociology and physical education that studies sports as so cial phenomena Research findings as well as popular ideas about sports and violence are often full of contradictions. One of the reasons for this is that - ☑☑All sports are lumped tog...

SED2601 Study Questions and Answers 2022/2023. Outline two reasons why marketisation policies may produce inequality of educational achievement between social classes. Answer:  cream-skimming; successful schools can attract higher achievers, who are more likely to be middle-class.  silt-shifting; successful schools can avoid taking less able, largely working-class pupils, who thus end up in low-achieving schools. Question Outline three reasons for gender differences in educational...

Functionalist Approach - ANSWERSTake a consensus view. Education performs 3 main functions - socialisation into a shared culture, teaching specialist work skills, selecting people for work roles. Education is organised on meritocratic principles. New Right Approach - ANSWERSTake a conservative view. Education should be based on market principles. Marxist Approach - ANSWERSTake a class conflict view. Education's role is to serve capitalism. It's an ideal state apparatus that reproduce...

# of people with a BA in psych - Answer- 3.4 million # of people with a Ph D or Psy D in psych - Answer- 207,000 # of divisions in the APA - Answer- 56 3 elements that define science - Answer- systematic empiricism, production of public knowledge, examination of solvable problems systematic empiricism - Answer- structured observation which is theory driven and used to test hypotheses production of public knowledge - Answer- scientific findings are submitted to the scientific commu...

ANTH 103 ONLINE FALL 2017 – FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 1. Anthropology has long studied the marginalized and remote segments of human society. Recently, a lot of research has begun to look at the upper segments of society, which can help us understand how the other marginalized groups come into being and exist at all. What is this process called? a. studying up c. deep ethnography b. marginalization d. thick description 2. Archaeology, the study of cultures in the human past, focuses on what? a. h...

Anthro 41A Final Review (Maya_ menon) Exam 2021/2022 Hernando Cortez Pt.1: • Lead Spanish group from Cuba in search of China/India • Arrives in Mexico in 1519 (same year the GOD Quetzalcoatl was predicted to arrive) Hernando Cortez Pt. 2: • Thinking he was possibly the God (Quetzalcoatl) the Aztecs sent him gifts) Hernando Cortez Pt. 3: • Later destroyed the Aztec Empire with his boats and with the Tlaxcalan allies (had 149,000 men who hated the Aztecs) after the Aztec popul...

University of California: ANTHRO 41A FINAL LATEST 2021/2022 Fall of Aztec & Incan Empires ● Led to an influx of enormous amounts of wealth into Europe ● Spain become first European “superpower” with Emperor Charles I as its ruler ● Disease is one of the primary reasons that these American empires fell to the Spanish conquistadors ● The Spanish were able to make alliances with local groups (such as the Tlaxcalans) who sent huge armies that gave the Spanish a huge military advanta...