SOC100 Lecture : Education

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Bede Eke

Document Summary

Institutions responsible for the transmission of knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes deemed y formal education regulated and organized by the state desirable. Informal education stresses societal norms and values, working to socialize the next generation. Resedential schools y earliest forms of formal education y re-socialize aboriginal people to become civilized . Functionalist y parsons schools need to both serve and reflect the values and interests of the society in which. Symbolic interactionism y examine meanings attached to school practices. Howard becker y teacher-imposed labels can lead to self-fulfiling prophecy y through interactive process one comes to embody a label y contemporary studies show that self-fulfilling prophecy remains a concern especially in relation to gender, race, and class. Early feminist studies y focused on the sexism embedded in both school texts and classroom practices y women represented as passive objects or altogether absent y teachers engage more with boys than with girls.