Sociology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Structural Functionalism
7 Dec 2020
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The average canadian youth spends 30% of each weekday in schooling. A typical undergraduate has been in the school system for almost their entire life. Schooling and the education system have fundamentally changed in modern society. Three key changes have created the schooled society:(scott davis and neil guppy) More than half of graduating high school seniors go to post secondary. Forms of education are increasing and diversing a. b. French emersions started in 1970 and has approx 300,000 students in canada. Legitimation of certain types of knowledge and diversion in society. Socialization is a manifest function of the education system. Durkheim argues that education serve the needs of society in a number of ways. Moral education= the means by which society perpetually re-creates the conditions of its very existence. Structural functional perspective, durkheim saw religion as a moral guidance in socie. Education is the new way to morally integrate people into modern society.
