[SOC 207R] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (29 pages long!)
Document Summary
Canada is a schooled society because formal education has moved to the centre stage of social life over the past century (davis & guppy, 2014, p. 3). We are in a credentialist society because school is the only way to be employed and make a living. Schooling is mandatory though it was not always. Enormous amount of time spent in school. Lots of money spent on education education/school is a business. Perceived link to increasing social mobility (jobs) and social justice (wellbeing) Increased connection to labour markets classifies and regulates who works there; tends to take place in colleges more than universities. What constitutes schooling has expanded (e. g. self-help books, online classes) Quantitative approach: strive to have an affinity with the natural sciences (biology, chemistry, or physics, scientific method, objectivity, and predictability, use of statistics. Studies and identifies what schools actually do through field studies or quantitative measures (i. e. not what they"re perceived to do/theoretically do)
