SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Visible Minority, Delayed Gratification, Neoliberalism
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Effects of mass public education on diversity and inequality. It homogenizes knowledge, values, and attitudes of the population, i. e. reduces diversity (literacy and numeracy, importance of time, nationalism) De-homogenizing phenomena: streaming (sorted based on your academic ability 4 basic, standard, academic, special education) and alternate programmes (e. g. africentric elementary. Despite its striving for meritocracy, it also differentiates students, i. e. reproduces inequality (increasing, stable, or decreasing; class, gender, racial and ethnic) by: barriers to access to education, class-bias of hidden curriculum, awards students with middle class values. Justification of inequality as a result of individual ability and effort. School is still probably the most meritocratic institution you will ever belong to: use of extra-functional criteria is deliberately limited (ensure that there is no social connections that influence); and, after admission, role of luck is small. Behavioural norms that integrate students into the larger society. Hidden curriculum has cognitive components (bourdieu: cultural capital) and social components.
