Sociology 2239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Hidden Curriculum, Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Social Inequality
9 Apr 2016
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Teach speciic skills (technical and pracical) need in industrial or in post-industrial socieies. Meritocracy: a social system in which status achieved through ability and efort rather than ascribed status such as race/ethnicity and gender or inherited advantages, give every child an even chance. Maintains ideology and status quo that beneits elites. The correspondence between workplace and school: future job seekers then are less likely to threaten the organizaional stability, hidden curriculum refers to the unwriten social rules or expectaions of behaviour. This is diferent from the manifest or formal curriculum that is subject- based. What are some social skills that students just seem to learn without being taught: such as obedience to authority and punctuality. Maintains social inequality and preserves the power of those who dominate society by soring people into classes and hierarchies: class diferences in educaional access, atainment and achievement, schools sort based on class and ethnic lines.
