SOCI 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Social Control, Cultural Learning, Anger Management
11 Apr 2016
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Education: social institution responsible for the systemic transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized culture. As a social institution education communicates values, beliefs, and knowledge considered essential to the social reproduction of individual personalities and cultures. Education serves an important purpose in all societies; at microlevel people need knowledge and skills to survive, at macrolevel maintains and perpetuates the culture of a society. Cultural transmission: process by which children and recent immigrants become accustomed to the dominant cultural beliefs, values, norms, and accumulated knowledge of society (via informal and formal education) Formal education: learning that takes place within an academic setting such as school. Formal education first came in place; few people knew how to read and write that has planned instructional process and teachers who convey specific knowledge, skills, and thinking processes to students. Middle ages: first colleges and universities were developed. Renaissance era: shift to the importance of developing well-rounded and liberally educated people.
