SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Social Integration, Meritocracy, Cultural Capital
14 Nov 2016
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Bio s1/3, a-k: need to know key ideas (methods, theories concepts, etc. ) Broadest definition: experiences that have formative effect on one"s mind or physical abilities. Education is life-long, occurs all the times. Institutional: educational institutions have the express purpose of passing knowledge, outlooks, and skills from teachers to students. Social institutions through which society"s children are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms. History of education: throughout history, humans have educated one another. One can argue that our main instinct is to learn. Parents, siblings, community members taught children skills they would need to survive. Which plants you can eat / poisonous. Edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) did(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:272)o(cid:373)pulsory i(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada u(cid:374)til the late 19th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tury. Only the elite went and got education. 4% of quebecois attended secondary school in 1952. Educational studies vs the sociology of education: both focus on formal education but different in important ways, educational studies: Focuses on techniques of teaching, factors that affect the learning process.
