SOC220H1 Lecture 6: Week 6 -Grabb and Guppy Ch10 SOC220.docx
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Introduction: the education system is understood as a social institution with the power to alter an individual"s position in unequal distribution, first education is as an important arena for developing skills, this is because ones educational accomplishments facilitate social mobility in both directions (good jobs or bad jobs, however the logic that education facilitates social mobility is only applicable under the assumption that schooling is both fair and neutral that is , if it promotes equality of opportunity > then people from all backgrounds should have the likelihood of moving up and down the hierarchy independent of family origins, however where you end up as an adult is heavily influenced by origin inequality begets inequality, however there have been some change ex: woman end ethnic groups education attainment is more equally distributed.
