SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hidden Curriculum, Institutional Racism, Structural Functionalism
1 Aug 2016
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Schools play an important role in this process: education is the venue where curriculum content and disciplinary practices modify student behaviour to be consistent with norms. In combination, this means that the institution of education plays a large role in a person"s future social mobility. International comparisons show that canadians (aged 15) perform relatively well in standardized math, science, and literacy tests. Just because we are ranked #5 overall doesn"t mean we don"t have a lot of work to do to improve the quality of canadian education, particularly for students from disadvantaged families. Before the industrial revolution, there simply wasn"t any education for the masses: when education occurred it was largely for the upper class, occurred individually or in small groups, and was segregated by gender. It"s at this point that public education and industrialization became co-dependent. Ryerson argued that the school system promoted the idea that it would be universal, compulsory, and free: the reality is twofold.
