SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Christopher Jencks, Hidden Curriculum, David Riesman
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Credentialism: the rising need for ever more sophisticated educational qualifications. Tests are universally used to allocate resources to people and people to positions do well on a test, a good position will correspond. Education: a process designed to develop one"s general capacity for thinking critically, as well as a capacity for self-understanding and reliance. In the study of this, some sociologists stress important socio-economic inequality while others stress the importance of values and aspirations but both are important. Is it fair to have a merit-based school (yes and no) Formal education: education received in accredited schools during formal teaching settings. Informal education: the variety of ways we undertake to gain knowledge for ourselves outside institutions of formal education. Functionalists focus on the manifest and latent functions of education, and the degree to which schools are currently formed fulfill these functions. Manifest functions t the secondary level are designed to give all students basic skills in.
