SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Social Inequality, Meritocracy, Hidden Curriculum
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Sociologists examine three ways in which schools connect to society. Through selection (ie. process by which the structure of schooling feeds into broader patterns of social inequality) Through socialization (ie. schools pass along values and knowledge) Through social organization (ie. schools afect how we learn and help deine diferent types of occupations) People acquired knowledge and skills through informal education learning that occurs in a spontaneous, unplanned way from parents and other group members. Formal education is learning that takes place within an academic setting, such as a school, that has a planned instructional process and teachers who convey speciic knowledge, skills, and thinking processes to students. Canadian education: although access to higher education remains uneven, canadian accomplishment in education is impressive when compared with that of other countries, canadian students rank 4th out of 65 countries in reading, mathematics, and science.
