SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Inequality

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2R03
• Professor: Lina Samuel

Document Summary

Keeps the poor out by keeping a school expensive. Gate keeping: education opens and closes for some people (of opportunity) (social placement function of education) Remember our discussion on davis and moore 1945. An essential component of gatekeeping is tracking (gender, race and class implications) Many schools devise tracks to respond to student" differing abilities [] an advanced placement track" [] and a basic" track for still others. Every year in college, and each degree, bring them [women] less return in the labour market than their male counterpart. Women are disadvantaged in returns of education. Men and women get degrees at the same rate but get paid differently still after. Continue to focus on gendered patterns of interaction. How girls are treated differently than boys in the classroom. Women have not been given equal treatment in education. Boys continue to have more classroom interaction with teachers. Sexism not as prevalent in course texts.