SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital, Assortative Mating
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They homogenize young people by socializing them into a shared culture. They sort young people into different levels of certification, and ultimately, different social classes. Mass education: an overview: the education system has displaced organized religion as the main purveyor of formal knowledge. And it is second in importance only to the family as an agent of socialization: the proportion of people with a college or university degree is higher in canada than in any other country in the world (49%) Sociologists highlight 4 factors that account for the rise of mass schooling: the printing press books were expensive when scribes were the only source of new copies. The printing press led to the production of inexpensive books and explosion of supply. This caused the spread of literacy and fostered demand for schools to teach reading: the protestant reformation - the catholic church relied on priests to convey dogma to believers.
