Inequalities in Education part 1. Flashcards
What is Education
Social instituion where children learn academic knwoledge, skills, and cultural norms. important for socializng us to our society
Is education formal or informal system
It can be both
Formal education occurs within school and has curriculum
inromal occurs outside school through peers, family, friends.
What are the two main socializing tasks of schools
Homogenization
Social Sorting
What is formal education
Learning of academic facts and concepts through a formal curriculum that is highly structured.
Is education considered a right and responsibilty in Canada
Yes
What is a meritocracy
Social System in which advancement in society is based on an individuals capabilties and merit rather than based on family, wealth or social economic status
Are meritocracies fair?
Although their based on fairness, they are not equal
What does it mean to say School is a social construct, but learning is inherent
It means that we are born with the ability to learn, but what we learn or what is considered is important to know is socially constructed
Is quality of education and obtainment of education equal?
No, it is not the same for everyone
education process begins before a child is even born
social class affects educational ambitions and pursuits
even if you access formal school, quality of it is dependent on parents SES
Why is education being dependent on SES Problematic?
Because education is they key to social mobility, moving up in social economic status
Why is there an unequal system in the US when it comes to the application process for universities
Because universities are ranked, prestigious schools have the lowest acceptance rates and require more from students.
limited spots
bribery, money laundering, documentation fabriaction to get affluent students addmitted into elite colleges.
What is the Streaming system in canada?
Where students are grouped together based on perceived intellectual ability, applied vs academic, college vs university.
What are the issues with Streaming?
Place low income and minority students in lower streams
notion that kids would mix match between academic and applied based off their interests did not happen
students in applied system have less options and thus more likley to drop out
different curriculum, poorer quality of education for lower tracks
those in applied streams unlikely to enter post secondary even if they want to.
Why are we destreaming schools, and what province was the last to do so?
Ontario was the last to do so
why?- creates a self fulfilling prophecy
streaming creates class differences
no streaming systems have more posisitive outcomes for students.
What are ascribed statuses?
Social status assigned to people or groups at birth and are beyond a persons control and cannot be easily changed or changed at all.
What are achieved statuses
Social status that is achieved for acomplishing something. can be positive or negative.
What is a primary labour market?
Comprised of jobs that offer good wages and opportunities for promotions (law, engineering, plumbing, teaching).
What are secondary labour markets?
Jobs that pay low wages, little chance to get ahead and precarious (jobs in retail, taxi drivers, service jobs).
Your labour market opportunities are dependent on waht?
Social, economic, gender, age, race/ethnicity
What does it mean that the labour market is stratified based on educational attainment
People with different educational attainments are sorted into certain areas of work or excluded from others.
Views eudcation as the sorting machine that determines someones labour opportunities..
based off the idea of meritocracy
education as the great equalizer
What is Human Capital
The skills, knowlesge and experience possesd by an individual or population
linear relationship with education
What is economic capital
Tangible, material resources that a person posses like welath property and income used to improve their living and harness opportunities
What is Cultural Capital
Non economic non tangible resources that a person acquires through their education and knowledge that can be used to improve their opportunities
What is Social Capital?
Social networks, both formal and informal that can provide you with opportunities
