SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Egerton Ryerson, Compulsory Education, Schecter Guitar Research
19 Dec 2019
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Institution of education is an enduring set of ideas about education and how it can be used to accomplish societal goals. One of the most important institutions in society due to its influence on socialization, status, social order, and economic productivity. Powerful tool for promoting ideas among impressionable youth, provide skills, modify behaviours. Before the industrial revolution, there was little interest in educating the masses. The industrial revolution demanded a more disciplined, trainable, and literate workforce. As early as 1846, education was seen as a way of achieving economic modernization. Education reformer egerton ryerson promoted the idea of a universal, compulsory, and free school system. Education upheld social order and maintained social control by subverting potential social conflict and animosity from irish catholics migrants. Schecter (1977) argued that compulsory, state-run public education is based on centralization and uniformity. Instrument of social control of the emerging working class.
