SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Cultural Capital, Institutional Racism, Blue-Collar Worker
30 Apr 2012
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Social institutions are the ordered relationships that grow out of the values, norms, statuses, roles, and groups of society. Things we build in a society in order to learn. Social institutions respond to the basic need areas of society, which include: family, educational institutions, economic institutions, religious institutions, political institutions. Socialized in many ways within educational institutions. People are in post-secondary education to get a good job, because their parents want hem to, etc. Education is considered critical to economic development. Knowledge or learning: society underscores this role of education. Individuals expect education to provide them with a wide range of competencies. 1950: only 10% of world"s countries had system of compulsory mass education. Today: more than half in developing countries are illiterate, while in canada, education is a way of life. In agrarian societies, children began to contribute to the family economy young. Modern beliefs changed to think that young children shouldn"t work at all, but go to school.
