POL S101 Chapter 8: chapter 8 soc.docx

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S101
• Professor: Satish Joshi

Document Summary

Finally, hiring and promotion and even grading are based on technical qualifications alone, and standards are established and rubrics created in an effort to ensure this practice. trend toward more centralized education particularly affects disadvantaged people, for whom education promises to be a path to opportunity. the disadvantaged often lack the time, financial resources, and knowledge necessary to sort through complex educational bureaucracies and to organize effective lobbying groups. Even a very bright student can fail to live up to that potential if she/ he believes that the student cannot fulfill that potential conflict perspectives focus on how education reproduces the existing social order and perpetuates inequality hidden curriculum standards of behaviour that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools tracking/streaming the placement of students into specific programs and levels of curriculum based on perceived individual levels of achievement (individual students)