SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Symbolic Interactionism, Upper Class, Labeling Theory

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Sal Guzzo

Document Summary

Education: the social institution responsible for the systematic transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure. Cultural transmission: the process by which children and recent immigrants become acquainted with the dominant cultural beliefs, values, norms, and accumulated knowledge of a society. Informal education: learning that occurs in a spontaneous unplanned way. Formal education: learning that takes place within an academic setting, such as a school, that has a planned instructional process and teachers who convey specific knowledge, skills, and thinking processes to students. Mass education: free, public schooling for wide segments of a nation"s population. Education is crucial to understanding human behaviour, because it directly affects the choices we make; Education directly affects out occupational chances; education affects our health outcomes. Example: education and its affect on social class outcomes. Social class outcomes are affected by social class origins. However, how does social class origin affect social class destination if education is controlled.