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Functional Illiterate
A high school graduate who has difficulty with basic reading and math.
Hidden Curriculum
The unwritten goals of schools, such as teaching obedience to authority and conformity to cultural norms.
Manifest Functions
The intended beneficial consequences of people's actions.
Protestant Ethic
Weber's term to describe the ideal of a self-denying, highly moral life accompanied by hard work and frugality.
Rituals
Ceremonies or repetitive practices; in this context, religious observances or rites, often intended to evoke a sense of awe of the sacred.
Secularization of Religion
The replacement of a religion's spiritual or "other worldly" concerns with concerns about "this world".
Cosmology
Teachings or ideas that provide a unified picture of the world.
Cultural Transmission of Values
In refernce to education, the ways in which schools transmit a society's culture, especially its core values.
Gatekeeping
The process by which education opens and closes doors of opportunity; another term for the social placement function of education.
Latent Functions
Unintended beneficial consequences of people's actions.
Social Placement
A function of education - funneling people into a society's various positions.
Tracking
The sorting of students into different educational programs on the basis of real or perceived abilities.
Credential Society
The use of diplomas and degrees to determine who is eligible for jobs, even though the diploma or degree may be irrelevant to the actual work.
Mainstreaming
Helping people to become part of the mainstream of society.
Profane
Durkheim's term for common elemnts of everyday life.
Sect
A religious group larger than a cult that still feels substantial hostility from and toward society.
Social Promotion
Passing students on to the next level even though they have not mastered the basic materials.
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Sociology - Religion
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Sociology part 2
Updated
2010-05-03T01:30:13Z
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