SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Mcdonaldization, Cultural Capital, Credentialism And Educational Inflation
10 Aug 2016
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Residential schools: earliest forms of formal education in canada and was established in the nineteenth century by missionaries and religious orders. Mass education: boys were set up for vocational training and girls were streamed into domestic science courses and were often segregated in school. Massification: mass increase in post-secondary enrolment, in contract to the smaller numbers that once constituted an elite group. Credential inflation: the ever increasing cache of educational credentials required for a particular job. Conflict theory: undestand schooling as serving the capitalist aims of profit and complaint workers schools are perceived as instrumental in preparing future conformers and thus relinquishing their revolutionary possibilities for human development and progreess. Correspondence principle: the principle whereby the structures of workplaces are reflected in the structures of schools. Symbolic interactionist theory tend to examine the meanings attached to school practices explore the symbolic aspects of education teachers may treat certain students inferior.
