SOC 3340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Loose Coupling

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3340
• Professor: Victor Ujimoto

Document Summary

Introduction: the paradoxes of teaching in a schooled society. Schooled societies give high priority to education. Teaching one of the larges occupations in canada. Single most likely career for educated women. Before 1960s teaching was not a particularly high-status job. Core mandate of 19th century public school teaching was dominated by the need to shape the character of the next generation more than the need to pass on esoteric knowledge. Governments directing millions of dollars to modernize schools, teaching upgraded as an occupation. Governments began to require teachers to obtain a university degree and insist hat that teaching without degrees much work towards getting one teachers became more specialized teacher pay raised. Benefited female teachers in particular teaching is a gendered occupation, but women"s numerical dominance has fluctuated over time. Gendered composition of teachers take a u-shaped patterns. 1920s women had 80% of jobs. Modern organization of teaching protected women from pressures that spoil women"s status in other occupations.