SY316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Class, Community College, Hay Day
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Schooling: creates skills and abilities, an investment, create ore societal equality. Schools as malls: accommodation and selection (schools right now) Human capital theory: theodore scultz and gary becker, recent rising inequality, (cid:862) kill (cid:373)is(cid:373)at(cid:272)h(cid:863, failure of higher education to match new technologies. Encourage more youth to enter higher education, particularly math and science. D(cid:396)a(cid:449) o(cid:374) we(cid:271)e(cid:396)(cid:859)s i(cid:374)sights a(cid:271)out the use of (cid:272)(cid:396)ede(cid:374)tials to (cid:862)(cid:373)o(cid:374)opolize(cid:863) o(cid:272)(cid:272)upatio(cid:374)s. Links values to models of schooling: marx, 1. Economic/industrialization: schooling ensured a skilled and compliant labour force: weber, 2. Technical complexity: schooling ensured young people had the rudimentary skills essential for success in a world growing more complex: durkheim, 3. Child susceptibility in a diverse world: schooling provided a venue to ensure children adopted a common value system. Nation-building: schooling was part of a larger process of building an independent country. Most people would support 3 & 4 because childhood is distinct from adolescence today. Childhood increasingly seen as a distinct phase.
