SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - U.S. Route 3, National Wealth, Readwrite
Document Summary
St. leonard riot- passed bill 101 making french the language in primary and secondary schooling in. Teach students common culture that forms framework for social life. Sorting children into adult jobs and social classes. Controversial b/c it endow future generations with capacities of communication, coordination and economic productivity. Exists in all education levels and public, private institutions. Homogeneity = out of diversity by using a uniform curriculum, enforcing common standards like language. Sorting: favors students in who develop greatest facility in common culture and confine those with less skills to subordinate work roles and lower ranks in class structure. Mass schooling linked with industrialism and to maintaining a modern, productive economy. Potential workers= culturally homogenized with similar outlooks and language, willing to receive training. More education = lower unemployment and higher earnings= better labor market. Education= gives students common outlook, reproduces class structure and structure of global inequality. Education system= displaced organized religion as main purveyor of formal knowledge.
