According to Sorokin, a sieve is a control that acts as a sifter in society that maintains and regulates social mobility and actually places individuals in society according to her/his “talents”; in fact, sieves “control the process of vertical circulation”. Sieves typically have a direct relationship with standardized tests. Examples of sieves that Sorokin gives [...]
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Reflections on Sociological Thinking…
Posted in Social Justice Education, tagged education, instructional differences, Max Weber, meritocracy, social capital, social class, Sorokin on January 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
An intriguing piece of a lesson plan I’m constructing…
Posted in Social Justice Education, tagged culturally relevant curricula, culturally relevant pedagogy, lesson planning, mathematics, minimum wage, poverty, social class, Social Justice Education on October 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Necessary Background Information: Students will find that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has calculated that one-third of a family’s total income could be set aside for food. This led to the original poverty line at $3000 in 1963. This and other information surrounding this activity lends itself easily to fraction, decimal, and percentage manipulation, and [...]
“Hispanics” don’t value education?
Posted in Latinos in Education, tagged education, Herman Badillo, Hispanics, immigrants, Latinos, social class on June 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ok I don’t have the time to really get into this right now but I need to say something right now. I was listening to Herman Badillo speak on C-Span earlier and though he mentioned many substantially sound things, he also said something that I couldn’t believe. He had the nerve to say that Hispanics [...]
A response excerpt from my Sociology of Education class…
Posted in Social Justice Education, tagged Bourdieu, cultural capital, culture, social class, students of color on June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital refers basically to all the sets of beliefs, practices, ways of thinking, knowledge, and skills passed on from ones social class; the idea is that certain cultural behaviors or norms carry along with them certain stratified value. These behaviors also give certain groups advantages in their ability to navigate [...]
Abillity Grouping/ Tracking: What are the Typical Results?
Posted in Social Justice Education, tagged Adam Gamoran, David Nasaw, education, instructional differences, Jeannie Oakes, Michael Lewis, Robert Sternberg, social class, tracking on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tracking in Education: Separate-But (Not)-Equal
The inequitable education opportunities between groups of people in America have been a long debated subject. Educators, scholars, and scientists have tried to both evaluate and make logical conclusions about this dilemma and how it evolved. At least since the 1920’s there have been attempts to explain these gaps on [...]
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