Sociology 2144A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

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Can also push back against this (this is our agency: thoughts, motivations and actions create social experience, to understand society you need to understand people. Increasingly, education is equated with formalized schooling: more people are going onto post secondary than before, less than 20% of canadians have a post secondary education. John dewey: (cid:862)educatio(cid:374) is a social process. Why is it organized provincially: who decides, functions of education, socialization, continuing knowledge and values, selection, sorting/stratifying, organization, rationalization of education. Structural functionalism: how our entire social system comes together, the assumption is that all our institutions (health care, education, government, etc) are part of the society and all work together. Socialize: passing along know-how, the school decides what knowledge to transmit k(cid:374)ow(cid:374) as (cid:862)curriculu(cid:373)(cid:863, the debate on this is long and ongoing, what does reading look like, hand writing no longer taught, grammar, science/arts, sex education.