SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Meritocracy, Gender Equality
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Defining education: bowles and gintis, reasons for educational inequality. Broadest definition: experiences that have a formative effect on one"s mind or physical abilities. Education is life-long, occurs at all times. Socialization is a type of education: cultural learning. Formal education: educational institutions have the express purpose of passing knowledge, outlooks, and skills from teachers to students. A system of rules governing forms of teaching; student-teacher relations; the recognition of student achievement; the appropriate behavior of students. Throughout history, humans have educated one another. One can argue that our main instinct is to learn. Informal education: until recently, the only type. Parents, siblings, community members taught children skills they would need to survive. How to make butter, which plants are poisonous, etc. Education didn"t become compulsory in canada until the late 19th century. Both focus on formal education but different in important ways. Educational studies: focuses on techniques of teaching, factors that affect the learning process.
