SOCI 1P80 Lecture Notes - Functional Illiteracy, Formal System
30 Jan 2013
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Education is the social institution responsible for the systematic transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure. It is an extension of the socialization process that begins in the family: the experience and success of students in the educational institution is socially structured. One"s social class, race, and sex play an important part in determining access to specific schools as well as which fields are the most appropriate to study. Academic standards: a nation at risk - a 1983 governmental commission (the national commission on excellence in. Lack of understanding of and interest in the importance of education. Apathetic attitudes toward classes, course materials, doing assignments, and attendance. Belief that good grades need not be earned, but rather just rewarded (as if students had a right to them) Characteristics of education in the u. s: education as a conserving force. The special task of education is to preserve the culture not to transform it.
