SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Functional Illiteracy, Infant Mortality, Social Epidemiology
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Education education: the social institution through which a society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values schooling: formal institutions under the direction of specially trained teachers. Schooling and the economic development link in low-and middle-income countries, people learn at home and reflect the national culture little opportunity to go to school, dependent on child"s income. More than 270 publicly funded post-secondary institutions (70 universities) functional illiteracy: reading and writing skills insufficient for daily living: official illiteracy is low in canada, but there are concerns with the functional literacy of adults. 15. 2% of canadians (15+ years of age) had university degrees in 2001. Canada has a smaller percentage of people with university degrees than the. U. s. after the quiet revolution in quebec, classical education was replaced by business engineering and science there is a gradual shift to engineering, math, and science degrees, but we lag behind other countries.