SOCB26H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: French Literature, Correspondence Principle, Conflict Theories
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Best of the most talented (regardless of gender, race, etc. ) they are the people who leave school with best qualifications and get the best jobs. Conflict theory suggests that they identify a close relationship between qualifications in the education system and students status, power. Like sf they identify a close linkage between school and work. School is an institution where cognitive skills are learned and acquired and used in the workplace. What they argue that what the schools teach and what students in school learn are not cognitive as personality traits. School curriculum is all about instilling of different personality traits into students. Most jobs in the economy do not in fact require large amount of skills. It doesn"t take much to learn them (from a few hours to a day or two-not weeks/years that sf would imagine it to be). What most employers want from the school system is not for cognition but personality traits.
