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onflict theorists look at the benefits of education. reproduction of the social class structure by the educational system. the usefulness of the hidden curriculum. the way that education helps undermine the dominance of the elit.

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Structural-functionalists see the manifest function of society as the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next.

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective on Education:Students from particular racial and ethnic groups, or students from low-income neighborhoods may receive different treatment at school. Administrators and teachers may have lower expectations of members from these groups.

Conflict theorists see the institution of education as a system of inequality designed to benefit the rich at the expense of everyone else. Schools act to reinforce existing social class inequalities, as well as, to discourage more democratic visions of society

the standards of behavior that are deemed appropriate by society and taught subtly by the schools. Examples would be raising your hand to ask a question, or waiting for your turn.

The cycle of rewarding those who possess cultural capital is found in formal educational curricula as well as in the hidden curriculum, which refers to the type of nonacademic knowledge that students learn through informal learning and cultural transmission. This hidden curriculum reinforces the positions of those with higher cultural capital and serves to bestow status unequally.