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Participation Assignment # 5
Part I:
1. What is meant by Self fulfilling prophecy?
2. What is meant by Social Interaction?
3. What is meant by Social Exchange Theory?
Part II
Schools are a major player in socializing and developing positive patterns of human interactions, values and attitude in the socialization process.
Thinking Assignment: You can download the article—Why Schools Don’t Educate by John Gatto; by Googling the title and author.
PART II Read John Gatos Article Why Schools Don’t Educate: a) Summarize the article and list a couple of points you agree, or disagree with. B) If you were in the business of assessing the quality of a school relative to its success with students; how would you go about assessing a schools quality?
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Part I:
Meaning of Self-fulfilling prophecy
Self-fulfilling prophecy is simply when a person predicts something unknowingly to come true
with the fact that he or she expects it to be true. Simply, it entails making of predictions hence
making the expectation to be realized. For instance, a football captain expects freshmen to be
unskilled and does not put them into play adequately. When he put them, they do not perform
well thereby fulfilling his predictions.
Meaning of Social Interaction
Social interaction is the act of socializing with one another. This can either be through talking to
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