SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Behavioural Sciences
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Merit and sorting: based on talent and effort, based on ability, to get ahead, socializing agent, transmits culture, receive more advantages when receiving a university education. Transmit culture: perform essential tasks essential for society, proper conduct and utility in society. Not as something that is supposed to socialize you: education reproduces the class system and hinders class mobility, the more your parental income, the more likely you are to attend university, class reproduction. Learned to analyse famous writing by famous people, and we have learned to understand people"s different viewpoints on general ideas . Different degrees will direct you into different paths and earnings. Research in the u. s. shows that a substantial portion of the income boost connected to a university degree is due in fact to a combination of personal qualities and family background, assisted by the university education. Smart, hard-working, well-connected young people from well-off families will do well, despite their educational background.
