Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Functional Illiteracy, Social Inequality, The Hidden Curriculum
3 Apr 2016
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Social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge. Schooling is a means of social control (holding tank for young where labour options are minimal) Going to school because you want to. Research indicates that more and more, students are physically present but psychologically absent . The interacting forces of peers, parents, and ethnicity all working in tandem. The friend group that you have has the most influence upon how well you do in school over race and family. Unhealthy cultural and social attitudes toward school. Social scientists: long observed asian american students performing (average) better than white peers. White peers in turn out perform black and latino peers. Ethnic differences are particularly apparent in terms of student beliefs about the consequences of failing in school (more pressure to do well in certain households and peer groups than others) Students don"t really believe that doing poorly in school will hurt them.
