SOCA02H3 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 Notes (along with Powerpoint Notes)
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Education system has displaced organized religion as main purveyor of formal knowledge. Education system also is second in importance only to the family as agent of socialization. Universal mass education is recent phenomenon and is limited to relatively wealthy countries. Around 1900, canada and the united states were the first countries in history to approach universal educational participation by young people. Societies that today are highly advanced in terms of economy and technology, such as. For most of history, families were chiefly responsible for socializing the young and training them to perform adult roles. Religion in traditional society was the main source of knowledge. Parents complain that education is, in fact, trying to replace parents and taking the place of primary socialization (co-parents) Literacy is the ability to read at rather a primitive level; education provides uniform socialization; education has become rationalized and centralized. 100 yrs ago: majority never attended school.