SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ibm Officevision, Siq, Symbolic Interactionism
29 Nov 2012
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Examines functions of educational institutions (i. e. selection, socialization) Merit: the smartest ones go on to university, grad school, and they enter elite professions such as doctors lawyers rewarded. Contest mobility: in canada, where most students attend high schools that prepare them for college or university. Socialization: schools socialize students and tell them important values: more and more schools are needed to teach like a moral education, what"s okay and what"s no okay, taking on the role of religion. Structural functionalism: say schools reward their best students regardless of their ethnicity, gender, age. All this is rejected by conflict theory. Educational institutions reproduce class-based inequalities (schools maintain and reproduce inequalities in society) Racism in the canadian university taking on racial identities by othering them (and make individuals experience themselves as different; when experience your self as different, you don"t have a sense of belonging. Henry and tator (2009) (denial of opportunity) Structural racism: racism is a matter of impact not intent.
