Eduqas A-Level Sociology Component 1 Section C education overview quiz quiz

Creates social solidarity and teaches specialist skills

Reproduces ruling-class ideology and keeps the working class in their place

Serves only the economy, simply training future workers for paid employment

Has no real function for society, beyond keeping young people occupied each day

A system of letters and reports sent between the school and the pupil's home each term

The close match between the social relationships of school and those of the workplace

A type of league table that ranks schools by their exam results for parents to compare

A functionalist idea about how schools transmit shared norms and build social solidarity

The money that middle-class parents spend on schools, tutoring and educational resources

A type of anti-school subculture formed by working-class pupils who reject the school's values

The knowledge, language and tastes of the middle class that schools value and reward

Government funding allocated to state schools through the formula funding arrangements

Cultural deprivation, the idea that some homes lack the values needed for school success

The correspondence principle, the close match between school and the workplace under capitalism

Cream-skimming, the way popular schools select the most able and cheaper-to-teach pupils

The self-fulfilling prophecy: pupils teachers expected to do well subsequently did

From prioritising marriage and family to prioritising careers and independence

From prioritising careers and independence back towards marriage and family life

They did not change at all over time, staying focused on marriage and the family

They shifted towards manual work and away from professional and office careers

Teachers ranking and sorting pupils by their perceived ability, which Lacey called differentiation

Pupils splitting into pro-school and anti-school subcultures in response to differentiation

A government education policy designed to widen parental choice in a marketised school system

Material deprivation, the lack of money and resources that holds back working-class pupils

Pupils passively accept the conditioning of the school and never resist it in any way

Schools are genuinely meritocratic, rewarding every pupil purely on their own ability

An anti-school counter-culture of resistance led working-class boys into manual work

Girls now outperform boys at every stage of education across almost all of the subjects

The tripartite system of grammar, technical and secondary modern schools

Comprehensive schools, teaching pupils of all abilities under one single roof

The eleven-plus exam used to select pupils for different types of secondary school

Marketisation, through league tables, open enrolment and formula funding

Middle-class parents who use cultural and economic capital to navigate the school market

Pupils who choose the easiest subjects available to boost their own grades and league position

Teachers who choose the most able pupils to teach, off-loading the less able ones onto others

A type of streaming in which pupils are placed into ability sets for every separate subject

Schools spending more of their budget on free milk and meals for younger pupils

Popular schools selecting the most able pupils and off-loading less able ones

A positive function that education performs for society as a whole, say functionalists

A type of restricted or elaborated language code used by pupils from different classes