8.1 Learning Outcomes
Aimee Samara Krouskop and Kimberly Puttman
This chapter offers you the opportunity to:
- Discuss how sociological perspectives view the role of education in unequal societies.
- Describe the relationship between education, poverty, and wealth with an intersectional lens.
- Illustrate the importance of social and cultural capital in education.
- Identify how policy can impact access to education and educational outcomes.
- Discuss how education can be a vehicle to advance genocide and cultural hegemony.
- Explain how education can support social justice and cultural restoration.
the financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.
the cultural knowledge and items that help one navigate a society.
the systematic and widespread extermination of a cultural, ethnic, political, racial, or religious group.
"dominance of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class that shapes the culture of that society …so that the worldview of the ruling class becomes the accepted cultural norm."
a state where "everyone has fair access to the resources and opportunities to develop their full capacities, and everyone is welcome to participate democratically with others to mutually shape social policies and institutions that govern civic life.”