SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Marital Rape, Individualism

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Ford

Document Summary

Keep the under aged and untrained out of the labor force. Sets the stage for establishing relationships and networks. Functionalist approach overlooks that the quality of schooling is far greater for some than for others. Us educational system reproduces the class structure in each generation. System transforms privilege into personal worthiness and social disadvantage into personal deficiency. Socialization into new roles is a crucial element of the educational system. Labeling students as good students or bad students can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy: students end up segregated into areas of study based on beliefs about gender and racial capabilities. Rules, dress code, and behavior expectations are taught. Schools are primarily funded by local taxes. Tend to have: lower proficiency test scores, higher dropout rates, lower college admissions rates, higher obesity rates, lower life chances, more students that end up in prison. Money is largest stumbling block to higher education.