SOC 101 Midterm: SOC Study Guide Exam 3

• School: ASU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

The social institution guiding a society"s transmission of knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values, to its members. Formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers, subset of education. Socialization adds to the stability of a society. Primary schooling: basic language and mathematical skills. Secondary schooling: expansion of basic skills to include the transmission of cultural values and norms. Pressure to date and engage in activities with the opposite sex. Don"t include peers for education because they give us so much misinformation-ex. Educational systems create as well as transmit culture. Manifest: initial intended causes, primary effect, a manifest function of dating is recreation. Latent: secondary effect, can be intended or unintended, by-products of a something that was intended, a latent function of dating is socializing. Latent functions of education: less widely recognized functions. Engages young people at a time in their lives when jobs are not plentiful, relieving tensions.