SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hidden Curriculum, Social Inequality, Meritocracy
Document Summary
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: a growth in modern schooling, schooling has become integral to modern life, forms of education are increasing and diversifying. People affected the most by strikes, etc are people in the low income brackets or just above the poverty line. When policies are put forth regarding education system, outcomes are intended. Ex: learning how to read and write it part of education system. What we are interested in as sociologists. If your upbringing is not mainstream and you are tested in a way that isn"t a. Streaming in social inequality: leading people down different paths normative way for testing, you will have trouble. Socialization is a manifest function of the education system.
