SOC 3340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Educational Equity, Unbridled, Blue-Collar Worker

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3340
• Professor: Victor Ujimoto

Document Summary

The structural transformation of schooling: accommodation, competition, and stratification. Streaming: highly structured form of ability grouping that directs students into distinct educational paths. Role of schools social selection signing badges of ability. Channeled students into different types of schools and programs based on a belief that not all students can benefit from the same curriculum. Stratification: structuring different programs or institutions as higher" or. Streaming splitting students into ability groups, upper stream bound for post-secondary and lower tiers offering vocational training. Students from wealthier/more advantaged family backgrounds tend to enter academic programs which foster better higher education and labour market outcomes. Students from poor/disadvantaged family origins tend to enter vocational programs relatively poorer post-secondary education and labour market outcomes. Correspondence between family background and school stream is far from perfect. Sociologists - long condemned streaming for limiting the opportunities for many students. High school streams dampen the aspirations of these youth, managing their ambitions, and discouraging them form moving on.