SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Meritocracy, Quartile, Out 1

• School: Walsh University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Dr. Laci Fiala

Document Summary

Definitions: education, social institutions through which society provides its members important knowledge including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values, schooling, formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers. What are the functions (intended and unintended) of schooling: subject knowledge, basics- i. Education and economics: closely tied to economic development, low-income countries: students do not experience much schooling, high-income nations: everyone should go to school. Schooling in the u. s: among the first countries to set a goal of mass education, by 1918, the last of the states passed a mandatory education law, schooling tries to promote equal opportunities. Schooling and social inequality: social control and the hidden curriculum, standardized tests, tracking, sorting children as winners or losers (ability grouping) Problems in the schools: unequal funding: where do the funds come from, federal- 6, state- 47, local- 47, who actually contributes the most, local. Problems in schools- dropping out: major problem a.