SOCIOL 1000 Lecture Notes - High School Dropouts, Gender Studies, Hidden Curriculum
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Education system also shapes people"s values and behaviors. Like the family, education is a social institution. Education the transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural norms and values to members of a. Informal education the experiences of everyday life that teach us about our surroundings. These experiences are not designed by someone to stimulate specific thoughts or to impact specific skills. Ex: a child puts her hand in a puppet and learns how to move it as if it were talking: formal education. Formal education the systematic and structured training provided typically by schools. With formal education there is a planned effort designed to impart specific skills and thoughts. Until the 19th century (1800s) relatively few people had a formal education. Those that did were generally white men of the upper class. Today our society requires literacy to read, write, and count in turn creating a demand for formal education.
