The major theoretical paradigm of Conflict Theory and Feminist Theories will be used to critically examine the educational system of elementary schools with regards to the social reproduction of gender relations, which leads to inequality. This research study will attempt to demonstrate the major hypothesis that gender inequality in the educational system results from the formal structure of elementary schools, that is, the formal curriculum, as well as from the informal structure of elementary schools, that is, the informal or hidden curriculum, which leads to differential expectations and...

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I was first taught to explore Wikipedia for school project work. ... I grew up in a devout Christian family. ... I would read the posts by friends of my old school friends and "like" them simply because my school friend knew the person. ... I began believing that schools were not what they used to be. ... I was impressed that the school would take such efforts to educate its students. ...

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.# Even within the field of sociology, he cannot really be placed into any particular school of thought; however, he was very interested in the relativism of all items in many of these fields of study. ... Levine's essay, "The Structure of Simmel's Social Thought," suggests that while Simmel's work is not distinctive as any particular school of thought, his works revolve around recurring categories of the subjects of social processes, social types, and developmental patterns.# In 1894, Simmel was the first teacher of a course specifically on sociology. ... Christians" taxes...

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Marxism can never be catogorized as just a philosophy because it is actually a combination of three developed traditions, German philosophy, French political theory, and British Economics. The philosophical side came mainly from Hegelianism. Marx takes many theories from Hegelianism such as that r...

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