SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Symbolic Interactionism, Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Cultural Capital
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How schools connect with society: through selection. Process by which the structure of schooling feeds into broader patterns of social inequality: through socialization. Schools pass along values and knowledge: through social organization. Schools affect how we learn and help define different types of occupations. Informal education: learning that occurs in a spontaneous, unplanned way -from parents and other group members. Formal education: learning that takes place within an academic setting that has a planned instructional process and teachers who convey specific knowledge, skills and thinking processes to students. Mass education: recent phenomenon and is limited to relatively wealth countries. Education system has displaced organized religion as main purveyor of formal knowledge. Second in importance to the family as agent of socialization. Enabled literacy to spread beyond elite circles. Mass education as necessity for industrial economy. Investment in education is important for achieving great national wealth. Education no only source of wealth; it is also product of wealth.
