SOCI 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter chapter9: Outdoor Education, Social Inequality, Cultural Capital

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Katherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Three main changes: growth of modern schooling. From elementary mass education towards post-secondary mass education (& life-long learning) (examples of renewing knowledge: medicine, cpr, : school as increasingly integral to modern life. National productivity & investments in knowledge workers(research, technology, etc not easy to move: expanding functions and forms of schooling. Outdoor education, media literacy, sex education, drug and alcohol awareness, environmental responsibility, etc. Embedded in other institutions (e. g. criminal justice system) Manifest and latent functions: teaches skills/knowledge, socialization. Durkheim -- this is the basis for his structural funciontalist theory and is the core of his interest in the education system. Training young people to play roles in and to t into society (which is, how society reproduce itself) (from family to school: selection. Weber argued that schools are based on bureaucracies and work to confer states and prestige. Weber is interested in rationalization in society, particularly the development of bureaucracies.