SOC 104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Hidden Curriculum, Gender Role

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Sal Guzzo

Document Summary

Format: 75 multiple-choice questions covering chapters 7, 10, 11, 16. Cultural transmission: process by which children and recent immigrants become acquainted w the dominant cultural beliefs, values, norms and accumulated knowledge of a society: occurs through formal and informal education. Informal: learning that occurs in a spontaneous, unplanned way (storytelling, ritual ceremonies) No written language, characterized by basic technology and simple division of labour: Subsistence/survival societies: formal: learning that takes place within an academic setting w/ planned instructional processes and teachers who convey specific knowledge, skills & thinking processes to students. Renaissance shifted focus of education from human depravity to importance of developing well-rounded and liberally educated people. Industrial rev. calls for all workers to have basic reading/writing/math skills. Ryerson: call for free education for both rich and poor. Mass education: providing free, public schooling for wide segments of a nation s population: contemporary education in japan. Peak of education (when made public) during meiji period of industrialization.