SOC 3340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Inequality, Confounding, Health Promotion

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3340
• Professor: Victor Ujimoto

Document Summary

Education plays a more prominent role in society now than ever before. Formal education has moved to the centre stage of social life over the past century. Compared to religion, politics, or economy, education is a relatively young social institution. Increasingly rely on the education system to rationalize and justify the social order. Increasingly central to our personal life histories. School attendance is one of the few mandatory things in life. More jobs and career paths require educational certification. Educational attainment is becoming a stronger predictor of people"s income and employment success. Schooling has become the major route for social mobility. Canadian schools are now the institution that embodies core values of equity, progress, and technical sophistication, values and associated practices that are intrinsic to modern society. Not only shapes our future biographies and life courses, also shapes the organization of society. Classifies and regulates who works where creating and rationing access to specialized roles.