SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Pierre Bourdieu, Hidden Curriculum, Generation Gap

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Halyna Mokrushyna

Document Summary

Education: social institution responsible for systematic transmission of knowledge, skills and cultural vales. Imparts values, beliefs and knowledge considered essential to social reproduction of individual personalities and entire cultures. Cultural transmission: process by which children and recent immigrants become acquainted with dominant cultural beliefs, vales, norms and accumulated knowledge of society: informal education: spontaneous and unplanned, formal education: learning within academic setting, planned process. Durkheim: education promotes social solidarity and stability, transfers knowledge from one generation to another, conveys moral values. Royal commission on learning: ensure all students have high levels of literacy, appreciating of learning, prepare to be responsible citizens. Manifest functions: socialization, transmission of culture, social control, social placement, change and innovation. Latent functions: restriction some activities, matchmaking, creation of generation gap. Pierre bourdieu: cultural capital: people"s social assets, middle and upper income parents have children with more opportunity to succeed in school.