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The Effects of Education as an Institution John W. Meyer Chapter 8

The Effects of Education as an Institution John W. Meyer Chapter 8. Legitimation Theory. Education is a system of institutionalized rites transforming social roles through powerful initiation ceremonies

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The Effects of Education as an Institution John W. Meyer Chapter 8

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  1. The Effects of Education as an InstitutionJohn W. MeyerChapter 8

  2. Legitimation Theory • Education is a system of institutionalized rites transforming social roles through powerful initiation ceremonies • Transforms society by creating new classes of personnel with new types of authoritative knowledge

  3. Macro-sociological theory • Network of rules creating public classifications of persons and knowledge • More powerful than socializing function

  4. Socialization Model • Proposition 1: Socialization (supported) • Proposition 2: Socialization and Adult Competence (questionable) • Proposition 3: Individual Competence and Social progress (little empirical evidence) **Missing element  Educational systems are society-wide and state controlled

  5. Allocation Model • Ed as a selector, sorter and allocator • Proposition 4: Educational Allocation; status  duration/type of education • Proposition 5: Chartering: external role  status achieved upon entry • Proposition 6: Lagged Socialization: adopt appropriate roles **missing element: focus on individual being processed w/ the social structure constant

  6. Social effects of Education • Set of initiation ceremonies that transform futures and pasts; enhance their value in social situations • A fixed capital asset more durable than work, income, family, property • Non-students; lower prospects, desocialized, committed to passive roles, allocates to failure

  7. Legitimation Theory • Proposition 7: Expansion of education  increases functions under social control • Proposition 8: Increases the specialized positions in society; defines and justifies their occupancy by certain people (*hired check credentials not competency) • Proposition 9: creates a collective reality • Proposition 10: Nation-building and citizenship • Proposition 11: intensified causal relationship between allocation and socialization

  8. Legitimation Effects • Expands the notion of homogeneity and ignorance • Reconstructs, reorganizes, expands socially defined categories; personnel and knowledge • Highly institutionalized status in society • Crucial ritual system of initiation and classification **effects society widely

  9. Conclusion • Schooling reconstructs reality for everyone • Schooling confers status; highest level of legitimacy in society • Secular religion in society  legitimating account of competence of citizens, authority of elites, buffers society from uncertainty • Through ordering our lives around it and our participation we serve to perpetuate it and maintain its authority

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