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General sociology week 6 - Education, Work and Consumption (Education…
General sociology week 6 - Education, Work and Consumption
Education
Education is a form of institutionalized socialization (the transfer of knowledge skills, norms and values by specialist teachers)
Access to education is very uneven across the globe, despite huge increase in participation and literacy
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GOvenmnet has invested a lot in the educational system and is constantly evolving to meet objectives
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Education and allocation
Bourdieu says that unfairness of education is threatened when teachers unconciously assess students based on their appearance, honesty, cultural capital and use of language/dialect
Some students experience teaching differently based on their social background (some are fiercely anti-authority)
Education and inequality
Conflict theorists believe that reproduction of inequality in education is intentionally built into the education system
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The avaliable work
In post industrial society, three transformations in production processes occur that make higher education much more important
- From production of goods to production of ideas and symbols
- from technical skills to literacy/communication skills
- work that is less dependent on location than at the time of industrialization
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