SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pierre Bourdieu, Individualized Education Program, Cultural Capital

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Halyna Mokrushyna

Document Summary

Education: social institution responsible for the systematic transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure. As a social institution education imparts values, beliefs, and knowledge considered essential to social reproduction of the individual personalities and entire cultures. Cultural transmission: the process by which children and recent immigrants become aquainted with the dominant cultural beliefs, values, norms, and accumulated knowledge of a society. Informal education: learning that takes places in a spontaneous unplanned way. Formal education: learning within an academic setting, with a planned instructional process and teachers. Mass education: free, public schooling for wide segments of a nations population. Education promotes social solidarity and stability transfers knowledge form generation to another. Manifest functions: open stated and intended goals or consequences of activities within an organization or institution. Ex: socialization, transmission of culture, social control, social placement, change and innovation. Latent functions: hidden unstated, and sometimes unintended consequences of activities within an organization.