SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Acting White, Model Minority, Stereotype Threat
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The process through which academic, social, and cultural ideas and tools are developed. Not all students emerge successfully from this system. Some problems include: of not being in school. Functional illiteracy: inability to read or write well enough to function in society (14% of population, 16 years and older) Innumeracy: having insu cient math skills to function in society (22% of population, 16 years and older) Schools teach general skills, such as reading, writing and arithmetic, as well as skills needed for the workplace. Schools transmit values, beliefs, and attitudes that are important to society. Schools are a very important agent of socialization. The hidden curriculum serves to form a more cohesive society but has also been used to impose the values of a dominant culture on outsiders or minorities. Transmission of knowledge is a manifest function (obvious function of education) Other functions are not so obvious (latent functions)
