SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Johannes Gutenberg, Demographic Transition, Separate Spheres
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In the wealthiest countries, where mass schooling is the norm, the education system: purveyor of knowledge; socialization. Has displaced religion as the most important. Is second only to the family as an agent of: although in canada, we have a high participation rate in. It is rather new. elementary and secondary school, education becomes much more expensive in post-secondary school. If you don"t have access to this money, university degrees and college degrees are out of the question: debt bondage symbolic construct. It is a symbolic construct that is made real because people believe in it and go along with it. For example, you take out a large student loan, and now you have this debt. Students then realize as they are getting ready to graduate, there are not a lot of jobs out there, but they still have a huge debt. This has a terrible effect on our ability to learn.
