SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes -Assortative Mating, Cultural Capital, Credentialism And Educational Inflation
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Educational achievement = the learning of valuable skills and knowledge (245) Educational attainment = the number of years of schooling successfully completed or the degrees and certificates earned (245) The development of the printing press, the protestant reformation, the spread of democracy, and industrialism led to the rise of mass schooling (246) The printing press led to books being less expensive and written in vernacular instead of. Latin, so parents wanted their children to learn to read (246) Protestantism required people to be able to read the bible themselves instead of relying on the catholic church to convey the doctrine (247) When local populations acquired the democratic means to tax themselves, tax-supported schools arose (248) A productive economy requires an education system large enough to create a mass labour force (248) Assortative mating = when marriage partners are similar in various criteria of social rank (250) Fuctionalists say that social institutions must perform certain functions to make industrialization possible (251)
