SOC101Y1 Lecture : SOC304H1-Lec 3
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Tests as a means of allocating subsequent educational and occupational positions. Summary: educational systems have a lot to do with controlling and legitimizing upward and downward social mobility social background still relevant to educational outcomes, selection via standardized tests has a mixed history. Ivar berg; pierre bourdieu; randall collins; ivan illich; etc. State control of education: napoleon i created public schools in france on may 1, 1800. To get the church out of most of the educational system. To create a national curriculum teaching republican values: napoleon i also created elite schools with entrance through competitive examination and designed to create technocratic elite which would keep france. Not as in china, where open competitive exam to mobility opportunities have been made nationally from ancient time, it is a new thing in europe. Plato"s republic (ancient greece: plato described his ideal republic as having three broad divisions: The guardians, representing the will, and who keep order and defend the society.
