Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cultural Capital, Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Human Capital
3 Apr 2016
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How schools connect to society: classical and contemporary approaches. Schools socialize people, pass on values and knowledge. Students from diferent backgrounds have unequal rates of success. Sponsored mobility takes place in educaional systems that select relaively few youth early in their lives to enter elite universiies. Uses high structured streaming to restrict access to higher educaion. Contest mobility takes place in educaional systems that group the bulk of youth into the same school, expose them to the same curriculum, and send larger numbers to higher educaion. Spots in higher educaion are becoming more valuable. Today, women have surpassed men on most measures of educaion atainment. Hidden curriculum funcionalists contend that schools teach values like universalism and meritocracy, not though lecture, but in the way class in conducted. Marxists claim that other hidden curriculums include obedience to authority. More moral teachings have been introduced to schooling, to create religious, devoted, good ciizens.
