SOC112 Week 7 Education

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SOC112 Week 7 Education How do Horace Mann and Bowles and Gintus differ on their views of public education? How important is education to upward mobility? With controlling for education (meaning, without taking education into consideration) what can be said about the relationship between a person’s social class origin and their expected social class destination? Does this relationship represent equal opportunity or unequal opportunity, and why? jobs are either dependent on high levels of education and in return provide higher status positions that earn higher than average salaries and benefits, and provides job security and stability, with opportunity for advancement or jobs are less dependent on education and thus provide lower level wages, little or no benefits, a lack of job security and stability, and offers temporary work, subject to unemployment during economic downturns, and low status, with little or no opportunity for advancement. exceptions to the rule: Dangerous jobs: police, construction, firefighters, etc. Controlling for education (meaning, taking education into consideration) what can be said about the relationship between a person’s social class origin and their expected social class destination? Does this relationship represent equal opportunity or unequal opportunity, and why? Is Education the great equalizer? How important is education for upward mobility? Access to education is important when it comes to upward mobility as in order to get better job opportunities you need to be educated. Higher education and upward mobility have a correlation people who are educated are more likely to be employed How likely is it to experience upward mobility with low levels of education? How important are high levels of education to one’s income, unemployment rate, and employment rate? High levels of education tends to be correlated with jobs that earn a relatively high income and the opposite being true for low levels of education. However, are there are exceptions to the rule? Meaning, are there jobs which require only low level of education, but tend to provide relatively higher levels of income. Explain the relationship between social class origin and educational attainment? What are the two main factors that explain the attainment of high levels of education? Explain how much parental education influences their offspring’s educational attainment at both university and community college.
SOC112 Week 7 Education Why does a parent’s education affect their offspring’s educational attainment? Explain how much parental income influences their offspring’s educational attainment at both university and community college. Why does a parent’s income affect their offspring’s educational attainment? How do symbolic interactionists explain why the upper class get more education than the lower class? What evidence supports their claims? How do conflict theorists explain why the upper class get more education than the lower class? What evidence supports their claims? What does the hidden curriculum mean? What does the hidden curriculum reveal? In the field of education, what does tracking mean? How do functionalists, conflict theories, and symbolic interactionists explain how tracking works? How do functionalists explain why the upper class get more education than the lower class? What evidence supports their claims? What is the manifest function of education? What is the latent function of education? How does resistance theory differ from conflict theory in the explanation of why the upper class get more education than the working class. What does grade inflation mean? What does credentialism mean?
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