Your successful “for and against” essay includes:

2. an introductory paragraph in which you clearly state the topic to be discussed without giving your opinion

3. a main body in which the points for and against along with your justifications, examples or reasons are presented in separate paragraphs; and

4. a closing paragraph in which you state your opinion or give a balanced consideration

of the topic

While writing your essay you can use linking words to add more points to the same topic: in addition (to this), furthermore, moreover, besides, apart from, what is more, as well as, also, there is another side to the issue/question/argument of ….

 In the article you have just read you have got acquainted with the problems concering the burning issue of religion and school interaction. What is your own point of view on the solutions to the interaction processes of secularization and globalization: should children be taught in faith school? Should they deal with such delicate problems as faith and belief in God at home, in the family context? Choose one of the topics suggested below and write a “for and againts” essay in about 350 words.

 Religious teaching helps the society to preserve traditions and transmits values and right attitudes to the future generations.

 Secular school is an abstract notion: in reality we cannot overlook religious and cultural differences of the students in a globalizing world.

 Do faith schools provide intolerance in pupils? (on behalf of the faith school /от лица/ student)

Sociologist’s Vocabulary

word	definition	translation
1) education	The transmission of particular attitudes, knowledge, and skills to the members of a society through formal, systematic training	воспитание, образование, обучение
2) selective education	Such a system of education when children at a certain age are put into several groups according to their abilities which they demonstrate in a special test	селективная система образования
3) curriculum	1. in a school or university it consists of all the courses of study that are taught there; 2. a particular course of study;	1.учебный план, 2.курс обучения;
4) hidden curriculum	A complex of unarticulated values, attitudes, and behaviors that subtly fit children in the image of the dominant institutions
5) three Rs	Such basic skills as reading, writing and arithmetic	чтение, письмо, арифметика
to screen (Noun. screening)		подвергать испытаниям
7) exam performance	The level of knowledge you demonstrate at the examination
8) intake	A number of pupils/students who are enrolled into a school/college/university	набор
9) credentials	Your previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that you are qualified to do smth	грамоты; диплом о высшем образовании (в Америке)
10) single-sex school	such type of school when males and females are taught together	школы раздельного обучения
11) coeducational schooling	Such type of school when both males and females are taught together	школы совместного обучения
12) tolerance (adj. tolerant; verb. tolerate)	If a person is tolerant, he/she lets other people say and do what they like, even if he/she does not agree with it or approve of it	терпимость, толерантность
13) faith school	Schools where children are educated in terms of a certain religion	религиозная школа

DO YOU REMEMBER?

(REVISION UNIT)

1. Recall the meaning of the following issues used in the unit. Then put them in the following categories whether they relate to, in your opinion:

a) conflict perspective on education;

b) results of the process of schooling;

c) prerequisites entailing changes in the system of education.

mobility escalator religious intolerance self-confidence

order characteristics unarticulated values cultural characteristics

productive capital political imperatives people’s mentality

Compare and explain your answers in groups. Do you remember in what contexts these issues were mentioned? Can you reproduce them?

2) Find the odd one out in the groups of words. Explain the criterion you used for each of the groups:

- arithmetic, reading, schooling, writing;

- social integration, research and development, completing socialization, hidden curriculum;

- achievements, examination performance, academic abilities, accomplishment;

- education, society, family, person’s own self;

- skills, giftedness, talents, abilities.

3)Match the words in A with an appropriate ending from B:

A

a) confer

b) screen

c) selective

d) overlook

f) obsolete

g) inculcate

B

1) pupils

2) skills

3) gifted children

4) credentials

5) models of behaviour

6) in-take

4. Explain the difference between:

- socialization and social integration;

- faith schools and secular schools;

- selective education and comprehensive education;

- national curriculum and hidden curriculum;

- co-educational and single-sex schooling.

UNIT 4: Who “We” Are and Who “They” Are: Social Stratification