PSYB30H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7.docx
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Lecture 7: structural functionalists: more schooling will reduce educational gap, conflict theorists: more exposure to education, inequality is worse, hard to research these conflicting views ideally, we should find a place where schools do not exists. Findings: unambiguous more supporting of the structural functionalist argument than the conflict argument, during the year, schooling reduces the size of attainment gap while long summer vacation widens it. We should not be looking at changing the shape of the school year should focus on class inequalities and parent"s background. Educational attainment for girls: girls begin their educational careers doing better than boys in elementary school, but fade away in high school, with considerably fewer of them going on to university. In classroom settings, teachers favoured boys: boys are more assertive and boisterous, school textbooks under represent female characters, university professors giving more face time to male than female students (more attention given to male than female questions)
