Racial Tracking

Based on the film we watched in class, “Racial Tracking,” the theories applied to it in chapter 12 are manifest and latent functions of education under the functionalist perspective, class reproduction, hidden curriculum, unequal funding, and segregated and resegregated schools under the conflict perspectives, and education and the self-fulfilling prophecy, and education and labeling under the interactionist perspectives. The film took place in 1995 in Calhoun County, Georgia. It dealt with how the school system worked and how black students were not treated fairly because the were not given equal opportunities to be placed in advanced placement classes as the white students were. There were examples of school activities that took place that were segregated and very unfair.
Manifest functions of education are the open, stated, and intended goals or consequences of activities within an organization or institution. Latent functions are the hidden, unstated, and sometimes uninten...