SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Homeschooling, Social Integration, Canadian Identity
EDUCATION
Education: A Global Survey
• Education
o The social institution through which society provides its members with important
knowledge including
▪ Basic facts
▪ Job skills
▪ Cultural norms and values
o Preindustrial
▪ Informal
• Family
o Industrial
▪ Formal
• Schooling
o Formal instruction under the direction of specially trained
teachers
o Reflet ultual alues ad eah outy’s leel of
economic development
▪ India
• Patriarchy shapes opportunity
o Secondary school
▪ 45% males
▪ 30% females
• many children work, limiting their schooling
o half the population is illiterate
▪ Japan
• Has soe of the old’s highest ahiees
o Early years
▪ School fosters traditional
values
o 96% of people graduate high school
▪ only 50% gain university
admission
▪ because of cram schools
▪ Great Britain
• Schooling was a privilege of nobility in the
middle ages
o Industrial revolution
▪ British law requires every
child to attend school until
age 16
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Document Summary
Education: a global survey: education, the social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge including, basic facts. Job skills: cultural norms and values, preindustrial. Industrial: formal, schooling, formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers, refle(cid:272)t (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al (cid:448)alues a(cid:374)d ea(cid:272)h (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t(cid:396)y"s le(cid:448)el of economic development. India: patriarchy shapes opportunity, secondary school, 45% males, 30% females, many children work, limiting their schooling, half the population is illiterate. Industrial revolution: british law requires every child to attend school until age 16, this is affected by class differences, public schools, elite schools, 7% of people accepted, (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t(cid:396)y"s elite, graduating from oxford or. School and social interaction: self fulfilling prophecy, self image can have important consequences for how children preform in school, students think they are superior, likely to preform better, students think they are inferior, likely to preform less well. Increases earnings: privilege and personal merit, credentials should be seen as symbols of family affluence.