SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Readwrite, Social Integration, List Of Universities In Canada
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Education: the social institutions responsible for transmitting a society s knowledge and culture, we created it for speci c purpose - cultural transmission, knowledge - technical. Oct. 15/09: enlightenment - education needed, open, democratic society - education replaces/mitigates ascribed traits with achieved ones, historically, humans have created social strata - ranking. Based on ascribed characteristics - age, gender, ethnicity, social class. No control: education can help us move up socioeconomic ladder into diff. Class: education gives you standing - say you ve achieved, public school system: provincial govt fund schools. Even across board: quality of education driven as much by nature of community as by curriculum. Curriculum, money = standard, but economic prosperity of a community plays a direct role in a school s success: voucher system - let s give money to parents, rather than school. Pick where your kids want to go to school. Logically, would want to send to best school.
