SY103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Meritocracy, Hidden Curriculum, Motivation
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How schools connect society: classical and contemporary approaches. Sociologists examine three main ways that schools connect to society by shaping it through: selection, socializing people, social organization. Selection: is the process in which the structure of schooling feeds into the broader curricula, and inspiring intrinsic motivation among students. This process ranks students at higher level and lower level where they are judged for their performance through marks and tests. Karl marx claims that school remains patterns of economic inequality. Schools are stratified socially, just as the workplace, where the rich youth tend to succeed and the poor stay in lower levelled education. In contrast functionalists view schooling as a process where the hard working are paid off for their hard-efforts and are selected for the best training through identification and reward. Durkheim believed moral education would combat individualism in the sense that it would keep people bind together as religion was no longer working.
