SOCI 2220H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Longrun, Hidden Curriculum, Visible Minority
29 Mar 2019
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Marx: creation and diffusion of ideas happens through education, superstructure, ensures that successive generations adopt these beliefs, reinforces an idea system that sustains and legitimates the inequalities in society and the mode of production. Durkheim: schooling is about the systematic socialization of the young generation, learn a system of rules that would encourage students to realize individual responsibilities and internalize their obligations to the larger community. What education in canada looks like today: proportion of individuals with post-secondary education is increasing over time, still beneficial in the long-run in terms of future income (professional programs, unlikely to be top earner without university education. 3 main sources of information: standardized test scores, teacher and counsellor recommendations (grades, student and parent choices. Bourdieu, cultural capital, reflection of values, attitudes, beliefs: schools reward familiarity with middle-class culture. In practice: teachers perceive refined ways of speaking, ways of seeing, and familiarity with high culture as markers of intelligence, talent and ability, biased curriculum.
