SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: International Inequality, Social Inequality, Role Conflict
17 Dec 2014
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Soca01 lecture 11: schools are important and sometimes controversial because they endow young people with the key capacities of communication, coordination and economic productivity. Education is easier to obtain if you"re born in a rich country and into a prosperous family. Mass education: an overview: 300 years ago, only a minority of people learned to read and write. A century ago most people in the world never attended school: late as 1950s, about 10% of the world"s countries boasted systems of compulsory mass education, today, many countries in africa have literacy rates below 50% . Canada: the proportion of people b/w ages of 25 and 64 with a college or uni degree is higher in. Canada than other countries at 49: enrolment rates are more than 95% for 5 years through the mandatory schooling age of 16- In preindustrial europe, the majority of children learned to work as adults by observing and helping their elders in the largely agricultural economy.
