SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Compulsory Education, Hegemonic Masculinity, Correspondence Principle
11 Feb 2013
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Residential schools: earliest forms of formal education, re-socialize aboriginal people to become civilized . Schools need to both serve and reflect the values and interests of the society in which they operate: schools help maintain equilibrium of social system. Act as a sorting mechanism for future roles in society (through allocation of grades) Teaches students how to function in the larger society (socialization) Criticism: clings to idea of society as a meritocracy, ignoring one s socialization. Conflict theory: schooling serves the capitalist aims of profit and compliant workers, bowles and gintis (1976) Correspondence principle prevails between schools and workplace. Similar means of motivating behaviour and authority structures. Students from privileged class backgrounds more likely to continue to higher levels of schooling. Schools work to prevent social class mobility. Symbolic interactionism: examine meanings attached to school practices, howard becker (1952) Teacher-imposed labels can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Through interactive process one comes to embody a label.
