SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hidden Curriculum, Sleepwalking, Mcdonaldization

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Alison Dunwoody

Document Summary

Higher education is important because it is the means of increasing paid employment. Formal education is supposed to instill leadership, social constructs and this ingrates stud and thus allowing students to become responsible citizens. Is socializing people into people of habits, thus one of the major goals of getting public ed to together and allowing people to "smart up" Teachers and school boards take a lot of credits --> but do they have much of an impact: Students unconsciously adjust to the school behaviours --> "we want to be lik accepted" = social norms in educational institutions. -> in the early stages of all levels of educations. The placement of the desks, the look of the classroom. "a real education not in a lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic. University was known as a "finishing school" was trained as the social grace as society, they were k entertainer.