Lecture 16.Sociology of Education and Life Chances.

LECTURE
16.SOCIOLOGY
OF EDUCATION
AND LIFE
CHANCES

, Lecture 16.
Sociology of Education and Life Chances

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, Summary of lecture
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 Education and schooling


 Perspectives on education
 Functionalism
 Conflict
 Interactionism
 Feminism

 Education and life chances of the “student-worker generation”

, Charles Dickens
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“’Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts.
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything
else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts:
nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on
which I bring my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring
up these children. Stick to Facts, Sir! ...’

‘In this life, we want nothing but Facts, Sir; nothing but Facts!’

The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present,
all backed a little, and swept their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels
then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts
poured into them until they were full to the brim.”
Charles Dickens (1907) Hard Times, London: Dent (Everyman’s Library), pp.1-2