SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Kindergarten, Academic Dishonesty, Functional Illiteracy

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

Document Summary

The bottom line: family background and the educational system. Students from a higher class background were far more likely to go to university than poorer students within the same cohort. The purpose to conflict theorists is to reproduce inequality, to help keep the social class structure intact form one generation to the next. Raise questions regarding women"s place in schools at all levels, in knowledge production and distribution, and i the construction of research questions and programs about education. Liberal basic equalitie issues within schools and educational institutions. Radical giving women a voice within classrooms, within the sphere of knowledge production, and within all levels of education. Socialist intersections of race, class and gender, and argue that with patriarchal relations, including those intertwined in the fabric of schools and educational programs and processes must be dismantled in order to establish a truly just society. The symbolic interactionist perspective: teacher expectations and the self-fulfilling prophecy.