SOCB26H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dolce & Gabbana, Numeracy, Meritocracy
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However, you can"t inherit educational qualifications: the fact that a parent has a medical certification as doctor/lawyer/university professor, you can"t pass those qualifications directly onto your kids. How do parents pass on their advantages to their children: answer: largely through educational system, and by various selection process which are available to educational systems. What do its critics say? education: most of streaming critics would align themselves with conflict perspective on. Suppresses ambition: those students who are placed in non-academic streams end up lowering their educational and occupational ambitions. If you placed a student in non-academic stream, they no longer anticipate a university education or post-secondary education: streaming has the effect of narrowing/lowering their ambitions. How is tracked allocation determined: academic attainment is an important determinant of whether or not students get into academic streams/programs. Low stream 50: home background, measured abilities affect educational attainment, are good students getting better because of continuing positive effects of home.
