SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Critical Pedagogy, Functional Illiteracy, Teen Mom

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Functional illiteracy: reading and writing skills inadequate for everyday living. Single/no parent homes : is this saying that single parents are bad parents, headed by women feminization in poverty, also bc of money. Parents with lower educational attainment: risk factor. Have lower grades: why would i do something i"m not good at? , streaming kids through the school system even when they are not competent failed an elementary grade. Continuity (history) culture big term that you can"t be critical of, gives us our sense of history. Novelty how do you make something new there is a diminishing sense of novelty in pop culture finding something that is brand new. Abstraction: capacity for abstract thought, norms, beliefs, attitudes. With any institution we create, we create a material culture around it. Idea (abstraction) you first start with a notion. Norms (cooperative behavior turn that into a norm, by looking for solutions and communicating critically, teach it, socialize it.