SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Hidden Curriculum, Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Symbolic Interactionism
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Sociologists examine three ways in which schools connect to society. Through selecion (e. g. , process by which the structure of schooling feeds into broader paterns of social inequality) Through socializaion (e. g. , schools pass along values and knowledge) Through social organizaion (e. g. , schools afect how we learn and help deine diferent types of occupaions) People acquired knowledge and skills through informal educaion- learning that occurs in a spontaneous, unplanned, way from parents and other group members. Formal educaion is learning that takes place within an academic seing such as school, that has a planned instrucional process, and teachers who convey speciic knowledge, skills and thinking processes to students. Educaion system has displaced organized religion as main purveyor of formal knowledge. Educaion system also is second in importance only to the family as agent of socializaion. Universal mass educaion is recent phenomenon and is limited to relaively wealthy countries.
