SOCI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: James Samuel Coleman, News
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Equality and equal opportunity: the american ideal is not to have equal outcomes of success, but to have equal opportunity to succeed and/or fail, equality is affected by race, gender, sexual identity, economic health. Schools and inequality: many have argued that inequality stems from school. Schools with enough money can fund infrastructure, educational materials, extracurricular programs, positive environments. Lower quality schools tend to prepare students for working class jobs (few skills, high discipline: time spent in school (~14% of year for average elementary/middle/high school student) does not support the idea that schools cause inequality, piano analogy: Piano teacher a works in a wealthy neighborhood. Teacher b works in a lower class neighborhood. Tea(cid:272)her a"s stude(cid:374)ts all ha(cid:448)e pia(cid:374)os at ho(cid:373)e (cid:449)ith which they can practice while outside sessions with teacher a. Tea(cid:272)her b"s stude(cid:374)ts (cid:373)ust go to their school in order to access a piano. Tea(cid:272)her a"s stude(cid:374)ts ha(cid:448)e o(cid:271)(cid:448)ious ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)tage o(cid:448)er those of tea(cid:272)her b (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of their resources.
