SOSA 1200X Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Social Inequality, Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Reference Group
25 Aug 2016
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Education as a social institution influences everything, from socialization and status formation to social order and economic productivity. Anomie (durkheim): a state of confusion caused when the bond between individuals and social institutions break down. Learning about one"s culture will improve educational achievement. Learning about one"s culture will promote quality of opportunity. Alternative and missing information can be provided. Students can become equipped to look critically at the accuracy of the information they receive. The reasons for the continued unequal social status of different group can be explored. Hidden curriculum: the unstated, unofficial agenda of school systems authorities (in discipline, evaluation, etc. ) The hidden curriculum: cultural capital (pierre bourdieu): the way class divisions are reproduced through differences in consumption patterns and taste (in the arts, in fashion, in food, etc. ) Her work demonstrated that sorting is based at least as much on class,
