SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Hidden Curriculum
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Education is the social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills and cultural norms and values. Schooling is formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers. Socialization: as societies gain more complex technology, they turn to trained teachers to develop and pass on the more specialized knowledge that adults need in the workforce. Cultural innovation: faculties at colleges and universities build culture and pass it on to students. Social integration: schooling moulds a diverse population into one society sharing norms and values. Social placement: schools identify talent and match instruction to ability. Latent functions of schooling: provides childcare for growing number of one parent and two career families, occupies thousands of young people, schools establish networks. Situations that people define as real become real in their consequences, people who expect others to act in a certain way often encourage that very behaviour, setting up the self fulfilling prophecy.