SOC224H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Neoliberalism, Financialization, Health Promotion
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Chapter one notes the context for the schooled society. Canada is now a schooled society : formal education has moved to the centre stage of social life over the past century. Schooling is increasingly central to our life histories: we spend a lot of time in school, attendance is mandatory. The growing demand for formal education partly stems from its rising power to shape lives: more jobs and career paths now require educational certification. Educational attainment is becoming a stronger predictor of people"s income and employment success. Schooling has become the major route for social mobility: groups formerly excluded from position of power, such as women and some racial minorities, are now encouraged to use schooling as a lever of upward mobility and social justice. Canadian schools are now the institution that is expected to deliver on core values of equity, progress, and technical sophistication that are intrinsic to modern society.
