GEOG 457 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Meritocracy, General Social Survey, Selective School
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Implications: the reproduction of society: language, civic values, the meritocracy: education achievement, life chances, economic outcomes. Meritocracy: rewards for hard work, individual giftedness regardless of class or ethnic origin. Promising barrier-free upward social mobility for immigrants: in general, educational achievement is achieved, families are compensating for weak individual incomes, through larger households, more wage earners, producing higher incomes. Educational outcomes: variable by family class, region, gender, ethnic/immigration status, English competence and other factors: monica boyd(2009) has researched the variable educational levels in canada from. Her results have some surprises but in general support an immigrant optimism" model: second generation. There is considerable variation among immigrant groups, and more detailed analysis shows. Jewish, chinese and korean groups score particularly high. A second study used stats canada"s 2002 ethnic diversify survey to look at educational achievements. Most european origin groups have completions near the canadian-born, and far below leves from asia. As we see education achievements, we also see better friendship networks.
