SOCI 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Delayed Gratification, Social Reproduction, Hidden Curriculum
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That assumption is essential for that theory to play out: overestimates the power of schools to overcome structural inequality, assumption that society is a fair and open system is faulty. The emphasis on human agency is not arguing that. The notion of human agency makes you think about how people interact and how there are differences. There were stories where you hear people overcome x, y, z disability but you have to pay attention not only to interpretation but people(cid:495)s agency. It isn(cid:495)t about rising above it all it is about thinking of the analysis that allows you to rise above it. Max weber: weber stressed the importance of education and educational credentials to the rationalization of society, particularly interested in how credentials are used by interest groups to advance their own positons. How did we have classes two centuries ago: the family. No one argued that education was a meritocratic system.
