SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Opportunity International, Functional Illiteracy, Meritocracy
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Educaion the social insituion through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills and cultural values. Schooling formal instrucion under the direcion of specially trained teachers. In low and middle-income countries people learn at home and relects naional culture. Japan has some of the world"s highest achievers. Great britain law now requires every child to atend school unil the age of 16. Funcional illiteracy reading and wriing skills insuicient for daily living. Canada has a smaller percentage of people with a university degree than the us. Ater the quiet revoluion, canada gradually switched from classical educaion to engineering, mathemaics etc. Technologically simple socieies depend on families to transmit their way of life. Industrialized socieies turn to teachers and the schooling system to teach basic skills, values and important cultural lessons: cultural innovaion. Faculty at post-secondary insituion create culture and pass it on to students: social integraion.
