Sociology 2144A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Socalled, Personal Taste
5 Apr 2018
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Getting an education is a good thing because it helps increase our chances of being employed. Gender and the educated person: jane ronald martin has argued that peter"s educational values are biased in favour of a traditionally male conception of education, she gives 3 reasons for this view, 1. By focusing on education as a cognitive achievement (developing thinking and reasoning) our emotional development is ignored: peter doesn"t say much about the value of caring about other people, 2. While peters is concerned with the public value of knowledge and understanding, he does not consider the role of knowledge and understanding in our private lives: ex. Romantic relationships, child-rearing and family life all require a certain degree of intellectual, practical, and emotional knowledge this knowledge seems to be excluded from peter"s conception of the aims of education. The results of a science experiment, for example, should not be affected by the preferences of the scientist conducting the experiment.
