SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Symbolic Interactionism, Visible Minority, Meritocracy
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Sociologists examine three ways in which school connect to society. Through selection (ex: process by which the structure of schooling feeds into broader patterns of social inequality) Through socialization (ex: schools pass along values and knowledge) Through social organization (ex: schools affect how we learn and help define different types of occupations) People acquired knowledge and skills through informal education: learning that occurs in a spontaneous, unplanned way from parents and other group members. Formal education is learning that tales place within an academic setting, such as school, that has a planned instructional process and teachers who convey specific knowledge, skills, and thinking processes to students. Education system has displaced organized religion as main purveyor of formal knowledge. Also is second in importance only to the family as agent of socialization. Universal mass education is recent phenomenon and is limited to relatively wealthy countries. 1950: only 10% of world"s countries had system of compulsory mass education.
