SOCB26H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nationstates, Guesstimate, Abstract And Concrete
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Bell"s post industrial: communication technology has rapidly transformed our way of life, from internet to cellphones through to smart cars and bioinformatics. More fundamentally, modern innovations depend increasingly on the pure research of university scholars. Politicians are among the strongest proponents of building bridges between education, knowledge and the economy. Ever-higher levels of schooling have led to increasingly high earnings for more educated individuals. Many earliest university charters were awarded to institutions with strong religious ties(dalhousie, The decline of religion has helped alter the cultural underpinnings of modern life. Increasingly, school material must compete with popular entertainment, advertising, and clothing, which have been criticized as industries of deversion and as weapons of mass distraction . Claimed a direct lineage from the thought of emile durkheim. Fuctionlism including human capital theory, the new institutionalism, and reflexive modernity. Schools played the key role of teaching modern values.
