SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cultural Capital, Single Parent

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Functions of education: merit and sorting, based on talent and effort, mainly for sorting, training, perform essential tasks essential for society, socialization, proper conduct and utility in society, transmit culture. Separating the youth as a collective: restrict job competition, promote social change through critical, independent thinking. Education reproduces the class system and hinders class mobility: your parents" socioeconomic state predicts your outcome on average, people at the top usually have parents with high education. Because they are able to help with the child"s education through homeworks and assignments. Inability to afford education: more common among low income. Lack of cultural capital: widely shared, high status cultural signals, preference, knowledge, behaviours, goals, they are all transmitted to children. Test scores used to channel students: different treatment and different quality of education, self fulfilling prophecy as they don"t expect you to succeed in university.