EDU001: Education as a social institution

Distinguish schooling from education and connect socialisation to unequal opportunity.

Source note: Source note: This is original Reach for the Star material aligned to AQA Sociology 7192 Education with Theory and Methods.

Connect and Check

Education is wider than schooling: people learn norms, skills, identities and expectations in many settings.
A social institution organises behaviour through roles, rules, routines, resources and sanctions.
Educational opportunity is shaped before, inside and beyond the school gates.

Access: match examples to institution features: role, rule, resource or sanction.

Core: explain one mechanism linking schooling to opportunity.

Stretch: evaluate whether schools create inequality or reflect inequality produced elsewhere.

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Explain two ways education may act as a social institution. [6 marks]