SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Age Segregation, Truancy, Cultural Capital
18 Feb 2017
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Brief history of mass schooling in canada. Effects of mass schooling sorting & homogenizing. Other critical perspectives bourdieu (cultural capital, pedagogic violence), foucault (disciplinary institutions, power) Symbolic interactionist perspectives education reproducing inequality. Mass education is a relatively recent historical development with implications on socialization and institutional hierarchies of knowledge. 4 factors are frequently attributed to its emergence & spread: printing press/inexpensive book production (1436, protestant reformation (1500s, rise of democracy (1700s, industrialization (1789s) Canada & the us introduced mandated mass education in the late 1800s and early 1900s as a means to achieve uniform socialization. Provincial recognition of separate school systems for catholics and protestants was implemented as a political maneuver to bring quebec into confederation. Compulsory schooling was enforced (e. g. by truant officers) The residential school program was an example of forced uniform socialization and cultural conformity of aboriginal children.
