CS235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Industrial Revolution, Nuclear Family, Social Inequality
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Chapter 1: the context for the schooled society. Schooled society formal education is now the centre stage of social life. Educational attainment = peoples income & employment success. Social mobility: use school to move upwards in life and social justice. Deliver: core values of equity, progress, and technical sophistication that are intrinsic to modern society. School & society: three roles: socialize 2) selection 3) organization, socialize (durkheim) Decides what knowledge to transmit by determining what values are to be stressed. Policy makers newly focus on the teaching of technical knowledge and skills. Durkheim views school as a socializing role schooling was a tool to combat the rising culture of individualism in modern society. Other sociologists (influenced by durk) examine how other institutions have been seen as competing for the attention of students, ex. Social media: select (karl marx) testing, quizzing shapes society schooling shapes and is shaped by larger patterns of social inequality and stratification school causes selectivity (credentials)
