SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: The Hidden Curriculum, Hidden Curriculum, Unintended Consequences

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Gatekeeping: determining which people will enter what occupations is another major function of education. Tracking: sorting students into different educational programs on the basis of real or perceived abilities. Likelihood of attending university, increases as family income increases. Opportunities are provided on the basis of gender and other characteristics: sent down gender specific career paths. Social placement: a function of education that funnels people into a society"s various positions. Mainstreaming: incorporating people with disabilities into regular social activities. Access to regular classrooms is only one concern of many parents of children with disabilities. Some question the quality of education provided ad worry about literacy, test scores and other scholastic measures. Childcare always has been a latent function of formal education as it was a unintended consequence of schooling. Sex education and birth control advice is a controversy. The conflict perspective: reproducing the social class structure.