SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Gender Equality, High Tech, Scientific Revolution
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Broadest definition: e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es that ha(cid:448)e a for(cid:373)ati(cid:448)e effe(cid:272)t o(cid:374) o(cid:374)e"s (cid:373)i(cid:374)d or ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al a(cid:271)ilities. Socialization is a type of education: cultural learning. Some will say the opposite; education is a type of socialization. Formal education: educational institutions have the express purpose of passing knowledge, outlooks, and skills from teachers to students. A system of rules governing forms of teaching; student-teacher relations; the recognition of student achievement; the appropriate behavior of students. One can argue that our main instinct is to learn. Parents, siblings, community members taught children skills they would need to survive. How to make butter, which plants are poisonous, etc. Informal education is as old as our species. Edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) did(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:272)o(cid:373)pulsor(cid:455) i(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada u(cid:374)til the late 19th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455) First school was in prussia (what we now call germany, and surrounding areas) Because the german kings wanted a sizeable well-trained army. The original spark was that we wanted to train people to be effective combatants.
