SOCA02H3 Lecture : march 1st lec.docx
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Mass educational systems we live in today; religion in traditional society was the main source of knowledge which has been taken over by religion. Universal mass education is recent and still reserved for wealthy countries; 300 yrs ago most ppl were illeterat; never attended school. literacy rate in canada is 99 %. Education provided uniform socialization; regliious training used to isolate ppl frm surrounded community not so education; education has become rationalize and standardized; In us, home schooling-schooling childrent at home bcz they dunt lyk wht schools teach curriculum in university is decided by course instructor which is called academic ffreedom. Edu can also influence the economy; when we talk abt steve jobs; its economy influencing edu; Watson and crick- the double helix-huge discovery; educational research made that change in the economy. Functionalism-edu systems are meritocracies- evaluat ppl on merits.
