SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Stratification, Hidden Curriculum, Compulsory Education

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Education the social institution through which society provides its. Schooling formal institution under the direction of specially trained members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values teachers. Schooling in india: many children work, limiting their schooling, half the population is literate, patriarchy shapes opportunity: 45% of boys and 30% of girls attend. Japan has some of the world"s highest achievers: schools foster traditional values, 96% of young people graduate from high school, half attend cram schools to attend university. Japanese students outperform canadian students in mathematics and science. 2001: canada has a smaller percentage of people with university degrees than the u. s. Socialization: technologically simple societies depend on families to transmit their way of life, industrialized societies turn to teachers and the schooling system to teach basic skills, values, and important cultural lessons. Cultural innovation: done through research, faculty at colleges and universities create culture as well as pass it on to students.