SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Functional Illiteracy, Compulsory Education, Business Engineering
16 Mar 2016
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The social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values. Schooling: formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers. In low and middle income countries people learn at home and reflects national culture. Patriarchy shapes opportunity: 45% of boys and 30% of girls attend secondary school. 96% of young people graduate from high school. Half attend cram schools to attend university. Japanese students outperform canadian students in math and science. Schooling was a privilege of nobility in middle ages. British law now requires every child attend school until age 16. Public schools are what we call private boarding schools for the rich. University admission is based on a merit system with exams. Graduates of oxford and cambridge become the country"s elite. By 1920, canada has compulsory education to the end of elementary school or the age of 16 in most provinces.
