EDUC 3013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Economic Stratification, Standard-Definition Television
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3-5 pages: purposes of schooling, political. General and specific skills for different jobs. Provide child care so parents can work: social. Provide opportunities for interactions with other children. Keep kids out of trouble, reduce violence, reduce drug use, reduce young pregnancies: other . Do schools reproduce the current structure of society or. Do schools disrupt the reproduction fo society: is that good or bad, social theories, functionalism (durkheim) Schools are one way that society keeps things running. Each part of society plays some role in the machine (or body) operating smoothly. Schools reproduce society; what schools do is good: conflict theory. Believe functionalism can"t explain key aspects of the system, including conflict. Question sources of conflict in social systems. Schools reproduce society; what schools do is bad: social transformation theories. In schools: educate students with a particular inequality orientation. Active; want to see disruption occur instead of just knowledge transmission.