SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Interactionism, Randall Collins, Intelligence Quotient
Document Summary
Recognized as a turning point in quebec history. Bill 101: makes french the language of public administration: children of immigrants will receive education is french. Allophones: children w/ neither english nor french backgrounds. Teach students a common culture that forms a framework for social life. Access to what type of schools is starting point for sorting children into adult jobs &social classes. Place where societies endow future generations w/ the key capacities of: communication, coordination, economic productivity. 2 tasks: 1. ) homogenizing- by enforcing common standards: 2. ) sorting. Mass schooling: tied to industrialization & to maintaining a productive economy. More education ensures better treatment in the labour markets. Education system is 2nd in importance [after family] as an agent of socialization. A century ago, most ppl never attended school. More than half of 19yr olds in canada were enrolled in either college or uni. Universal mass education: recent phenomenon, limited to wealthy countries.
