Sociology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Meritocracy, Universal Design
19 Jan 2017
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Statistics show that if you have at least one parent that has gone to university, you are more likely to attend university. Conditions of success: motivation, determination, focus, self-driven, dedication, effort, privilege, ambition, autonomy, balance, status - achieved and ascribed, happiness, luck, patience, support. Intelligence: health, good genes, connections, working hard, talent, money. Something based on our own efforts/ individual achievement. If you think about it, you probably think you deserve to be in this class because you worked hard in high school. You can"t buy your way into university - debatable. What is not formally said, but implied: everybody has equal opportunity to develop skills and demonstrate merit, talent are effort are rewarded, we can agree what constitutes merit. Think about a world where money doesn"t exist. People like mechanics would have the highest status. Schooling as example: universal access: free public schooling, progression system -> high school courses: university level courses are taken by.
