SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Acting White, Cultural Capital, Pierre Bourdieu
6 Nov 2016
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The us"s high school"s graduation rate in 2012 was 80% Achievement gap: disparity on a number of educational measures between the performance of groups of students, especially groups defined by gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and socioeconomic status. Intelligence: level of intellectual ability, particularly as measured by iq tests. Intelligence is difficult to define because it covers qualities that may be unrelated to one another. Emotional intelligence: the ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself or others. Iq (intelligence quotient): a score attained on tests of symbolic or reasoning abilities. The content of education is particularly important in creating a common culture. This way of thinking places less emphasis on the content of an official curriculum. The primary social function of mass education derives from the need for degrees to determine one"s credentials for a job. Since educational attainment is closely related to class position, credentialism reinforces the class structure within a society.
