1. Chapter 8
1.1. Main idea
1.1.1. Examine this belief in equal opportunity in the context of the social realities of life in the United States.
1.2. Key Terms
1.2.1. Estate stratification
1.2.1.1. Occurs in agrarian societies where social level is defined in terms of the hierarchy of family worth.
1.2.2. Class stratification
1.2.2.1. Occurs in industrial societies that define social level in terms of a hierarchy of differential achievement by individuals, especially in economic pursuits
1.3. Coleman Study
1.3.1. Coleman received an extremely large grant to study the relationship between the organizational characteristics of schools and student achievements.
1.3.2. Demonstrate that African American students and white students had fundamentally different schooling experiences.
2. Chapter 9
2.1. Main idea
2.1.1. The complex explanations of the problem concerning educational inequality
2.2. Key Terms
2.2.1. Functionalists
2.2.1.1. Expect that the schooling process will produce unequal results, but these results should be based on individual differences between students, not on group differences.
2.2.2. Interactionism
2.2.2.1. Suggests that one must understand how people within institutions such as families and schools interact on a daily basis in order to comprehend the factors explaining academic success and failure.
2.3. School - Centered Explanations
2.3.1. Sees these differences as the result of student differences prior to entering school
3. Chapter 10
3.1. Main idea
3.1.1. Looks at the most significant educational problems and the role of teachers and schools in solving them.
3.2. Key Terms
3.2.1. Systemic reform
3.2.1.1. The coordination of reform efforts at the local, state, and federal levels.
3.2.2. Intersectional
3.2.2.1. School choice policies include only public schools