Sociology Final Terms

The social institution responsible for the systematic transmission of knowledge, skills,and cultural values within a formally organized structure.

The process by which children and recent immigrants become acquainted with the dominant cultural beliefs, values, norms, and accumulated knowledge of a society.

Learning that occurs in a spontaneous, unplanned way

Learning that takes place within an academic setting such as a school, which has a planned instructional process and teachers who convey specific knowledge, skills,and thinking processes to students.

The practice of providing free, public schooling for wide segments of a nation's population.

Pierre Bourdieu's term for people's social assets, including values, beliefs, attitudes, and competencies in language and culture.

The assignment of students to specific curriculum groups and courses on the bsis of their test scores, previous grades, or other criteria.

The transmission of cultural values and attitudes, such as conformity and obedience to authority, through implied demands found in rules, routines, and regulations of schools.

A process of social selection in which calss advantage and social status are linked to the possession of academic qualifications.

The inability to read and/or write at the skill level necessary for carrying out everyday tasks.

A system of beliefs and practices (rituals)-- based on some sacred or supernatural realm-- that guides human behavior, gives meaning to life, and unites believers into a single moral community.

An unquestioning belief that does not require proof or scientific evidence.

Those aspects of life that are extraordinary or supernatural.

The everyday, secular, or "worldly" aspects of life.

Regularly repeated and carefully prescribed forms of behaviors that symbolize a cherished value or belief.