SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: High Tech, Scientific Revolution
Document Summary
Enlightenment and scientific revolution: placed great emphasis on knowledge and learning. Ed. offers objective insight into skills, intelligence. Proliferation: education became dominant basis of merit in west, spread elsewhere. Feed-back loop: education is increasingly valued because it is a source of merit, so people focus on it more, value it more. Individual mobility: very common sociological finding that education promotes mobility. Provides the skills, prestige, and connections that promote social advancement. Individual: people who receive an education have greater mobility than those that do not. Inter-generational: people who get an education are able to be more mobile than their parents. Although not if others are getting more education (bourdieu) Education can also have additional benefits to both individual & society. Health: studies have shown that education increases the life chances of both the educated and children. : a common finding that female education is more important for limiting child mortality than male education.
