SOC101 Lecture Notes - High School Diploma, Correspondence Principle, Meritocracy

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC101
• Professor: Barry Mc Clinchey

Document Summary

Institutions responsible for the transmission of knowledge skills, values and attitudes deemed desirable. Mass education system cam about during the 18 century when literacy skills became desirable for factory workers. Formal education regulated and organized by the state (ea. Informal education stresses societal norms and values, working to socialize. Molding the youth, attitudes and values rub off to parents: instill a positive patriotic value system in the population. Residential schools: earliest form of education, re-socialize aboriginal people to become civilized. Mass education: industrialization and immigration, education viewed as essential to economic development, ontario first to offer free, compulsory education, girls and boys education in different areas. Aboriginal, indian" residential schools in the u. s. and canada. Based on ward churchill"s kill the indian, save the man" 2004. Wipe out the unhuman" indian part and make them functional members of society. Supplant the tradition mode of defining group members by genealogy (kinship) Disperse native populations as widely as possible.