SOCB26H3 Lecture : LECTURE 1
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Three ways that school connects to society: selection y we leave (graduate from) the educational system with different badges of ability y educational selection is linked to inequality: Structural functionalism: educational selection is a meritocratic process. Conflict theorists: it is through the educational system that high status parents pass on their privileges to their children: socialization. In the mid- 19th century, durkheim, concerned about the decline in religion as a moral force in society. He indentified important changes for schooling in the 19th century y 1st of the changes: industrial changes where it was more of an industrial y y change than agriculture ( industrial revolution) Important political changes, more of a democratic system. Religious influence was becoming less and less and what durkheim was concerned about was if religious influence was becoming less and less how they were supposed to carve the moral part of the society. What were they supposed to do about the religious influence becoming less.
