Sociology 2144A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Randall Collins, Human Resources Development Canada, Educational Inequality

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2144A/B
• Professor: Laura Reid

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Goal of education is to prepare people for a role in society (voting, and participation) and is a form a socialization. Sociologists want to know how this form of socialization affects and is affected by other social structures (like family, ses, peers, culture, seterotypes) experiences and outcomes. Sociologist work to identify how various social forces such as politics, economics, culture etc create variation in schools. Sociologists look to identify how variation in school practice lead to differences in individual-level student outcomes. Policy; a lot of policies are well informed theoretically but how they get practiced does(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:373)at(cid:272)h up. Intersection between canadian society education and the labour market. Hard to be successful without an education. Fo(cid:396)(cid:373)al edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) is (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)ed to (cid:271)e (cid:858)su(cid:272)(cid:272)essful(cid:859) Weber: we as a society have given it the legitimacy and authority it has. Social agent larger than religion, politics and economy.