SOCL 2001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Standardized Test, Broccoli, Social Inequality
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Education: social institution (lsu-organization, religion-institution, church-organization, deals with the transmission of skills and knowledge to its members, also transmits social values and norms. Structural functional theory: overt function, teaching, testing, transmit new behaviors/skills, creation of new knowledge, decrease poverty, covert function, prolonged adolescent. Collins (1979): we learn cultural norms of the dominant group in school, not learn skills: physicians in the us: almost 9 years of schooling, china/cuba/india: shorter time but still good physicians, biased intelligence test. Japan but problems still exist: what are the problems, fierce competition (china and japan, creative minds are filtered out, lost dynamics, lack of strong leadership/independent thinking people. 4 principals students learned in school: universality: education for all, egalitarianism: equal treatment for all students, standardization: contents, procedures, appearance are same. Failure of american public schools: fi(cid:374)a(cid:374)(cid:272)ial p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373): lo(cid:449) (cid:271)udget, tea(cid:272)he(cid:396)"s lo(cid:449) sala(cid:396)(cid:455, self-fulfilling prophecy: low expectations from the students.
