SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Assortative Mating, Hisense 4K Tv 300, National Wealth
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Informal learning that occurs in spontaneous, unplanned way from parents, other group members. Formal learning takes place within an academic setting, such as a school, planned instructional process, and teachers who convey specific knowledge, skills, and thinking processes to students. Education system has displaced organized religion or family as main purveyor of formal knowledge. Second in importance to family as agent of socialization. Universal mass education recent phenomenon limited to relatively wealthy country. 1950: 10% world countries only had compulsory mass education. Today: half citizens in developing countries are illiterate. Although access remains uneven, canadian accomplishments are impressive when compared with that of other countries. 2009, canadian students ranked 4th out of 65 countries in reading, math . Canada has 16,000 elementary & secondary, 276,000 teachers who educated 5. 3 million children and have an enrollment rate of about 95% 49% people 25-64 have a college or university degree (highest in the world)