SOC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Shool, Low Culture, Positio

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 112
• Professor: Sal Guzzo

Document Summary

No, not everyone can get a university degree. Parental education: when parents have high level of education, their kids will have high level of education, when parents have low level of education, their kids will have low level of education. Tuition keeps rising, and income does not keep pace. Puts a strain on working class families. Osap can help: but the poor are risk averse. Upper (cid:272)lass pare(cid:374)ts i(cid:374)(cid:448)est their resour(cid:272)es i(cid:374)to their (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) at a(cid:374) earl(cid:455) age: pri(cid:448)ate education, attend better public schools, provide more support. This leads to the upper class doing better in primary and secondary school. More likely to be in the gifted programs. The poor are more likely to be in the applied programs. Richer kids are more likely to go to university because their parents spend money to prepare them for a better future. Parental income affects university participation but not community college participation h.