SCHEMA ACTIVATORYou and your peers have been

socialized through your schooling experience:What personal attributes did you learn

are valuable from your schooling? What did you learn and not learn

about your culture and society from your schooling?

What did you learn about your role in society from school?

SCHOOLS AS SOCIALIZATION AGENTS Manifest function:

teach knowledge and skills

Latent function: unintended consequences of

schools

At home, children learn values of family; school teaches broader social values

FUNCTIONALIST:LATENT FUNCTIONS OF SCHOOLS

Universality – same rules apply to everyone

Hidden curriculum – are not explicitly taught, but are the “messages” sent from schools Competition Listening/following to authority Nationalism, democracy, etc.

Corridor curriculum – what students teach each other Often contains racism, sexism, “coolness”

CONFLICT PERSPECTIVE: CRITICISM Education is different in America based on

social class Upper/middle class

Often more resources Prepare for upper position jobs Structure of schools support openness and

individuality; “train to be the boss” Lower/middle class

Often less resources Prepare for blue collar jobs Structure of schools support rule-following; “train

to be the employee”

“ALL IN ALL YOU’RE JUST ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL” Choose a specific lyric that relates to the how

school’s socialize students. Provide an analysis of what that lyric means. Lyric: Analysis:

Watch the music video, what symbolism is used to illustrate the process of school socialization? Provide an analysis of what the symbolism means. Symbolism: Analysis:

Has your educational experience been more of development of you as an individual, or have you been “processed” by schools? EXPLAIN!

DOLL STUDY RESEARCH

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/17/ac360-series-doll-study-research/

Which socialization agents came impacted these students? Provide an example of each.

What can be done to address this issue?