SOCA02H3 Lecture : education.docx
22 Apr 2012
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In traditional society religion was/is the main source of knowledge this is being taken over by education system. Education is 2nd greatest social agent (comes after family: may people do say in today society - education is trying to replace parents (i. e. may education agent/ teacher call themselves co-parent ) parents complain about this. Mass educational system is fairly recent & is still reserved for wealth countries. 300 yrs ago illiterate/ most people were illterate there was no school. Education provided uniform socialization religion tend to isolate people from surrounding community but not so w/ education. How the changes in economy relates to changes in education and how economy changes education? : e. g. Steve job ( business revolution) & steve wozniak (in terms of technology) they were part of the flower power generation (smoke lot dope etc. ) Changed educational system using apple apts & computer how this economic changed education education have become heavily computerized.
