SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: The Bell Curve, Democratic Education, Unschooling
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The child decides what to learn, when to learn it, and how to learn it. Basic idea: while recognizing its positive effects, they believe education can be a means of negative outcomes as well. Education is a positive development for any society. But the cost of education is also present: dominance. Different from popular views of education, which tend to be more functional. Marx: the conflict perspective has many influences, but an early one was marx. Mate(cid:396)ialis(cid:373): ma(cid:396)(cid:454)"s (cid:373)ate(cid:396)ialis(cid:373) suggests that edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) is do(cid:373)i(cid:374)ated (cid:271)(cid:455) the e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) elites. Nowadays, education is open to everyone; not just the elite. But of course, there are some limitations to this. The way the curriculum is structures, this reflects certain specific interests. The way different historical events, people, and social classes are presented reflect a certain ideology. Does(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essa(cid:396)il(cid:455) (cid:396)efle(cid:272)t ho(cid:449) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ki(cid:374)g-class people think about those issues. Legitimizing inequality: schools emphasize the importance of education-based meritocracy.
