Sociology 1020 Lecture 19: Education
20 Mar 2017
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Formal education: the learning of academic facts and concepts through a formal curriculum. Informal education: learning about cultural values, norms, and expected behaviours by participating in a society. Schools endow young people with the key capacities of communication, coordination, and economic productivity. Accomplish two main tasks: create homogeneity out of diversity by instructing all students in uniform curriculum, sort students into paths that terminate in different social classes. Students learn a common knowledge base, a common culture, and learn to identify what the society"s of cial priorities are. Students who demonstrate that are well adapted, or adapting well, to the standards are often rewarded for their efforts. Teachers and others move students toward high-status position by recognizing that they are willing to conform to standards. The education system has displaced organized religion as the main purveyor of formal knowledge. It is second in importance only to the family as an agent of socialization.
