SOC224H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Playtime, Knowledge Economy, Wright Brothers
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Formal education has moved to the centre stage of social life over the past century. Just five decades ago most teenagers did not even complete high school but now most move onto post secondary school. Schooling has become the major route for social mobility. Social mobility: groups that used to be excluded from positions of power (like women) are not encouraged to use schooling as a way to move up in mobility and social justice. Forms of schooling have become a core part of all big organizations with on- the-job training and company-specific certificate programs. Some corporations have created their own universities (eg. dunkin donuts. Governments and corporations turn to universities to generate innovative research to fuel wealth creation. This illustrates a core process of modern societies, the blurring of boundaries between institutions (in this case schools and corporations) They even use schooling in the criminal justice system: eg.
