SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Functional Illiteracy, Compulsory Education, Business Engineering

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

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Education: the social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values. Schooling: formal instruction under the direction for specially trained teachers. In low- and middle-income countries people learn at home and reflects national culture: little opportunity to go to school. Patriarchy shapes opportunity: 45% of boys and 30% of girls attend secondary school. 96% of young people graduate from high school. Half attend cram schools to attend university. Japanese students outperform canadian students in mathematics and science. Schooling was a privilege of nobility in middle ages. British law now requires every child to attend school until age 16. Public schools are what we call private boarding schools, for the wealthy. University admission is based on a merit system with examinations. G(cid:396)aduates of o(cid:454)fo(cid:396)d a(cid:374)d ca(cid:373)(cid:271)(cid:396)idge (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e the (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t(cid:396)(cid:455)"s elite. By about 1920, canada had compulsory education to the end of elementary school or the age of.