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Education & Inequality

Education & Inequality

Q In your textbook (SOC by Jon Witt) read chapter 8 thoroughly. Focus on the Educational portion only. Using examples, specifics and analysis, answer the following questions: 1 Compare and contrast University Heights to Fieldston School. Describe and critically analyze Melanie’s situation. After your written analysis, apply the following quote (pg. 172): “Education, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,” Horace Man, 1848. What are your thoughts on education as the great equalizer? 2 Describe the research findings on the teacher-expectancy effect (p. 180). How would symbolic interactionists interpret/view the teacher expectancy effect (explain)? As you answer, consider labeling. Discuss the social consequences of tracking, and "credentialism" (pages 179, 181). Give examples of each. Witt 8 Religion in Society .pptx

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1. University of heights, is a public school, located in the neighbourhood which lacked basic resources. It offered no AP courses. It did not even have a library. Fieldston school which was located only three miles from Melanie’s school. Fieldston is an elite private school located on an 18acre campus in an exclusive sector of the Bronx. The tuition fees of Fieldston cost over $50,000 per year. Melanie could not believe her eyes when she got off the bus at Fieldston. She saw the school she always imagined. It really did exist but was not accessible to her. She broke down and cried.