SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Making Money, Chiropractic, Cultural Capital
13 Apr 2012
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Mass educational system = sociology of education. Religion in traditional society was the main source of knowledge and that was taken over by education. Some say that education is in fact trying to replace parents (educators call themselves co-parents ) Mass education is recent and it is still reserved for wealthy countries. Slide 5 - 300 years ago most people were illiterate and never attended school. Literacy rate in canada is 99% an ability to read at around grade 8 level (university rates are way past this) Religion used to isolate people but education doesn"t do this. Education has become rationalised and centralized and many pressures for uniformality and standardization: people that oppose this - in america, a lot of home-schooling because they don"t like what the schools are teaching. Particularly in kindergarten and high schools, curricula determined by the apparatchik beauracrats in school board in university its is developed by professors (= academic freedom)
