Palgrave Macmillan - Being Sociological

Multiple choice questions

Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein explore the ways in which:
1. Education advances socialism
2. Education shapes academic careers
3. Education secures social reproduction
4. Education supports teachers
The communication code of schooling is an elaborated code. This:
1. Puts teachers’ children at an advantage
2. Puts working class children at a disadvantage
3. Puts middle class children at a disadvantage
4. Puts working class children at an advantage
Visible pedagogies and invisible pedagogies:
1. Link the classroom and society
2. Are of growing importance
3. Provide restricted code
4. Are globalising
Bourdieu saw education as:
1. Legalising inequalities
2. Legitimising inequalities
3. Levelling inequalities
4. Linking inequalities
Neoliberal globalisation is associated with:
1. The decline of modern institutions of education
2. The growth of modern institutions of education
3. Hyper-real education
4. The growth of post-modern institutions of education
The key elements of change in education include:
1. A shift from restricted to elaborate codes
2. A shift from social to economic reproduction
3. A shift from state planning to minimal state involvement
4. A shift from individual to transnational responsibility
The Gramscian version of neo-Marxism emphasises:
1. Hegemony
2. Hyper-reality
3. Nationality
4. Notionality
National education systems are main means by which societies:
1. Celebrate technology
2. Distribute life chances
3. Concentrate economic problems
4. All of the above
The “grammar of schooling” is refers to:
1. Language teaching
2. Semiotic analysis
3. Organizational practice
4. Teacher training
Resolving the core problems of capitalism:
1. Centre on providing a skilled labour force
2. Require social order and cohesion
3. Focus on accumulation
4. All of the above
The intended outcomes of education include:
1. Educated citizens
2. Teaching to the test
3. Individual responsibility
4. All of the above
Knowledge, understanding and credentials are all:
1. Outcomes of education
2. Outputs of education
3. Outlines of education
4. Outside of education
The argument that education legitimates the inherent inequalities of the system is made by:
1. Weberians
2. Functionalists
3. Marxists
4. All of the above
The fall of the Berlin wall is emblematic of:
1. Socialism
2. Education
3. Functionalism
4. Globalisation
Bourdieu argued that education gives the impression that:
1. Failure is the result of life chances
2. Success is exclusively a matter of gifts
3. Success and failure are interlinked
4. Failure is the fault of the system
Invisible pedagogies are:
1. Based on explicit set of rules
2. Made clear to middle class children
3. Largely implicit
4. Made clear to all.
For Bourdieu education is:
1. A social field where actors struggle over resources and status
2. The site of economic reproduction
3. A locus for symbolic control
4. All of the above
Who wrote the book Pedagogy, Symbolic Control and Identity: Theory, Research and Critique?:
1. Michel Foucault
2. Roger Dale
3. Basil Bernstein
4. Pierre Bourdieu
Education has offered the possibility of:
1. Improving economic development and social justice
2. Eliminating social mobility and poverty
3. Advancing socialism
4. Reducing social stigma
Modernity is associated with:
1. Postmodernism
2. Neoliberalism
3. Globalisation
4. Science

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