Question
Randall Collins’s The Sociology of Philosophies cites the need for some candidates to study until forty to enter China’s bureaucracy as an extreme form of this phenomenon for academic credentials. For 10 points each:
[10e] The general increase in the number of students receiving A grades for lower quality work is described as an educational analogue of what economic phenomenon applied to school grades?
ANSWER: inflation [accept credential inflation; accept grade inflation]
[10m] Collins’s description of credentialism’s reinforcement of stratification reflects this sociological approach. This Marxist-influenced approach is often contrasted with symbolic interactionism and functionalism.
ANSWER: conflict theory [accept social conflict theory]
[10h] Per the “correspondence thesis,” schools reproduce stratification through this kind of educational program. Philip W. Jackson coined this two-word concept to describe how education subtly instills behavioral standards.
ANSWER: hidden curriculum [or hidden curricula; prompt on curriculum or curricula]
<Social Science - Social Science - Sociology>
Summary
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| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
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