Today we’ll explore the history of education as a social institution, with a specific focus on how the US organizes its educational system. We’ll look at education through the lenses of some sociological paradigms: structural functionalist approaches (including some of the manifest and latent functions associated with education), and a symbolic interactionist approach to education that shows us how self-fulfilling prophecies in educational settings contribute to differences in academic outcomes for students.
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References:
Sociology by John J. Macionis, 15th edition (2014)
US Census, Educational Attainment in the United States: 2015 https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p20-578.pdf
UNESCO Institute for Statistics http://data.uis.unesco.org/Index.aspx?queryid=242
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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G K Chesterton
Where was the first formalized state school system established?
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I cannot answer the latent functions of the school when my teacher asked at school. I remember we all answered that we came to school to learn. Now the school is a lot more than learning lectures. We are learning social interaction. I don't understand what a school experience gives me during my school days. I only understand and miss after I am now a university student. But I will learn my best to understand and appreciate my time as a university student now. Thank you all the Crash Course members for such informative videos, it is literally an online sociology class.
And look at us now lol
bruh
I can't even recite the pledge of alliance even if my life depended it
Oh school was supposed to help me make friends? Haha didn't get the memo
I love that as part of additional recourses for our sociology class we have these videos. It is also funny how our teacher is always warning us that it's focused a lot on american context. 😀 Which is true, because from this video it looks like USA has one of the best educational systems, which is deffinetly not true. Here in the Czech Republic compulsory school attendance functions since 1774. Also our entire educational system is free and there is no religon in most schools (public or private). Of course there are many countries that have worse educational system than USA, but I don't think you have the best one. But it's just my opinion, so please don't come at me… 😀
Where’s John green?
YAWA ASA ANG STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALIST ANI HAHHAHAHAHHAHA
We are teaching our children the wrong things in school. We are creating a societal system where each section is dependent upon the other sections. This means when one section fails then the rest also fail.
We need to teach our children to be independent. Instead, we teach children how to be obedient workers.
To give meaning to someone's life teach them how to grow their own food, build their own house, repair their own car, cook their own meals, eat to stay healthy and most importantly how to meditate and pray. This gives life meaning.
Being a millennial, I was disturbed to finally realized that education is and always was political. But more serious issue is why have we JUST NOW have started "twerking" the system
Average time spend 15 year
Education institutions
Social institution which provide all kind of important knowledge.
Structure of schooling
Pre school
3-3-5-3
Rte 6-14
Vocational schools
Pvt school
Tailored education disability
Home school
Religious school
Open school
Community college
College
How shape society
1 functionalism
Manifest teaching basic fact about world, socialization,cultural transmission,creation of civil society, social integration, creation of new knowledge, educated future workers. Way of determine status
Latent Mann factory school model 9-5
Child care
Help make friend love marriage
Symbolic interactions
1 prejudice of teacher students self fulfilling prophecy
Low degree among lower caste,class,minorities.
Except we all graduated because of Crash Course
its good to be a straight A student.
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Help each other subs now!!! @ucation
In irvine, california, we have primary school until 6th. middle school is just 7th and 8th grade
"history" of education. Glances over major moments and misses a ton of context on the introduction of public schools and prussias involvement. Pledge of allegiance is a social norm? you just made me realize how weird saying a pledge every day is. Its indoctrination and conditioning daily to kids who are forced to go to school. Its not the worst, but its still worth noting how weird that truly is.
We should send kids to primary school until halfway through fourth grade then switch schools halfway to the middle school until 9th grade when they go to high school like normal
How does this video define sociology
Separation of church and state are not in the constitution.
true but it goes nicely with with my intro to sociology book lol
kinda just adds to it
Crash course: college for criminals
Conveniently avoided the gender education gap. and men's under representation in social sciences.
The thought bubbles are my favourite part
This anchor is so beautiful
This channel is getting me through university
Schools help you learn to be social?? I disagree. I was just as socially awkward when i graduated as when i started.
Anyone know where i can find good revision videos for the uk sociology without half the video being random nonsense i definitely will not need in an exam
you can't talk about a social institution focused on influencing and directing cultural norms within a society without talking about money. And it is a societal norm to acquire debt to build credit. Our economy runs on capital and so does our education, and our society revolves around capital and money to buy homes, buy cars, build and spend credit…..our parents are educated enough to say hey your going to school, to get a job afterwards to play in this big monopoly game. IF you don't have an education, you don't have money, and without money you can't be a productive member of society…consuming, investing, building or creating…..ugh….can anyone help me say this better….education is amazing….how else would we pass information from generation to generation….but i would argue that money is creating stability and education is just common sense to get an education….get a skill…..work….save…spend…own….
Contrary to popular belief, the US is a Republic –not a Democracy. Common misconception. 🙂
I went to school in fair fax Virginia lol hello yeah