SOC 101 Lecture Notes - High School Diploma, Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Talcott Parsons

• School: Bishop's University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Barry Mc Clinchey

Document Summary

Education responsible for the transmission of particular knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes deemed desirable in a given society. Formal education tend to be regulated and organised by the state. Informal education: learning activities that people seek outside of formally structured education spaces. Formal and informal education contribute to social reproduction by stressing societal norms and values; socialises next generation. Earliest forms of formal education in canada established in the 19th century by missionaries and religious orders. Residential schools: before formal education was established by religious orders, native peoples practiced an organic education; tailored to practical needs of the family, clans and communities that took place amid the natural environment. No formal teachers, individual community members responsible for ensuring children learned key knowledge, skills, traditions and values. Industrialisation and immigration created the need for a system that would educate the masses: argued mass education would serve the public by providing common moral education, common education not the same education.