Sociology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Social Stratification, Meritocracy, Social Inequality
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Education: social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills and cultural norms. Schooling: formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers. Functional lliteracy: a lack of the reading and writing skills needed for everyday life. The structural-functional approach focuses on the ways in which schooling contributes to the orderly operation of society. Socialization: technologically simple societies depend on families to transmit their way of life. Industrialized societies turn to teachers and the schooling system to teach basic skills, values and important cultural lessons. In pre industrialized societies, education occurred informally within the family. Differences in schooling in societies around the world reflects both cultural values and each countries level of economic development. : done through research, faculty at colleges and universities create. Cultural innovation culture as well as pass onto students. Social integration: schooling molds a diverse population into one society sharing norms and values.