Statistics for sociology key terms - education

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everyone has equality of opportunity and you succeed based on talent	meritocracy	80%
working class who are forced to sell their labour to capitalists for income	proletariat	61%
possessing economic wealth providing a higher status	capital	60%
political view focusing on the conflict of class division in society	marxism	60%
the belief of women's equality to and liberation from men	feminism	55%
class including well paid professional occupations and business owners	middle class	54%
a system of government where men hold the power and control women	patriarchy	53%
class including low paid manual skilled, semi skilled or unskilled occupations	working class	53%
conservative political view with neoliberal ideas of economics	new right	51%
minority class who own means of production and exploit workers for labour	bourgeoisie	48%
separating pupils into different groups or classes based on their ability	streaming	48%
lessons that are learned in school without being directly taught	hidden curriculum	46%
the move to run something competitively to make money, like a business	marketisation	45%
ascribing a description or value to something or someone	labelling	43%
a prediction that comes true purely by virtue of it having been made	self fulfilling prophecy	43%
lacking the physical necessities to reasonably function within society	material deprivation	42%
a further division of a group which has seperate shared norms + values	subculture	41%
political system with small state, privatised businesses + a deregulated market	capitalism	40%
the view that society is a connected system of interdependent parts	functionalism	40%
possessing the tastes and abilities ascribed higher status	cultural capital	37%
the process where the world becomes increasingly interconnected	globalisation	37%
speech code consisting of limited and simple vocabulary	restricted code	35%
speech code consisting of wider and more complex vocabulary	elaborated code	33%
the process of learning skills needed to function within a society	socialisation	33%
a figure who is seen as an example and imitated	role model	27%
individual members of society feel as if they're part of a single community	social solidarity	26%
lacking the basic requirements and skills to function within society	cultural deprivation	25%
structures used to maintain power of the ruling class through control of beliefs	ideological state apparatus	25%
the way men view women hyper sexualised and objectified	male gaze	21%
close parallels between schools and the workplace	correspondence principle	17%
structures used to maintain power of the ruling class by force	repressive state apparatus	17%
the response of pupils to differentiation by moving towards one extreme	polarisation	15%
the social influence from people of the same social group	peer pressure	14%
dispositions and ways of thinking shared by a particular social group	habitus	13%
societal fear of a sensationalised or distorted threat	moral panic	12%
sorting of pupils into those who will pass, fail or may pass or fail	educational triage	11%
possessing qualifications which provide a higher status	educational capital	10%
the process of categorising students into different groups	differentiation	8%
giving status or recognition to something deemed to have worth or value	symbolic capital	8%
an area or activity seen as being owned by a particular gender	gender domain	7%
the removal or not giving status to something deemed worthless or tasteless	symbolic violence	6%