SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Social Inequality, Gender Role, Social Class
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Functions of education: education as selection (filtering student, who is stronger in certain domain) vs. education as nurture (curiosity, abilities, education as a means to level the playing field. Imp to consider how education affect their self-esteem and motivation toward learning. Impacts of motivation on achievement (eg. vs ses: higher mot, perform better, few practical recommendations for teacher (motivation imp. Want to foster it i(cid:374) their stude(cid:374)ts, (cid:271)ut do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449): few causal investigations, lot of correlation, but not many experimental tests. Research process: grounding the program, wanted to give practical motivation measures for teachers, o(cid:373)e of theory does(cid:374)"t apply to (cid:272)lassroo(cid:373, determining best empirical course, ethics process. Education and social inequality: meritocracy, p. 8: khan, form of social engineering aimed at defining talents of people so they can be selected, due to talent, merit, hard work, take it at face value. Ironic meaning at first: unequal state ends up giving more advantages to those who already have more.
