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Religion, Education, and Medicine. Religion. Why are sociologists interested in studying religion? What is religion? The sacred and the profane Rituals. Religious Organizations. Churches and Denominations Sects and Cults. Religion in Contemporary U.S. Life. The Secularization Thesis
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Religion • Why are sociologists interested in studying religion? • What is religion? • The sacred and the profane • Rituals
Religious Organizations • Churches and Denominations • Sects and Cults
Religion in Contemporary U.S. Life • The Secularization Thesis • Religiosity • The Religious Marketplace
State-Church Issues • Religion and Morality • Issues? (Video)
Religion and Theory • The Functionalist Perspective • The Conflict Perspective • Marx and Religion
Education in America • Thomas Jefferson, an advocate and pioneer of the American educational system, believed that education is important to promoting active citizenship and a democratic self-government. What did he mean? • What is the purpose of education?
Education • Learning & Education • The bureaucratic Structure of Schools • Characteristics of American Schools
Characteristics of Education in the U.S. • Education as a Conserving Force • Schools indoctrinate students in the culturally prescribed ways. • Mass Education • Many students attend school for the wrong reason.
Characteristics of Education in the U.S. • Preoccupation with Order and Control • A Fragmented Education System • Private • Homeschooling • Charter • Vouchers
Characteristics of Education in the U.S. • Local Control of Education • Financing of schools through local taxes • Intrusion of religious views of the majority • Sifting and Sorting Function of Schools • RSA Animation
Education and Theory • The Functionalist Perspective? • The Conflict Perspective? • Correspondence and Control • Symbolic Interactionism? • The Hidden Curriculum and Educational Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Is education the “great equalizer”? Why or why not? • Popular construction of education and Success?
Sociological Theories of Education • Conflict • Educational institution solidifies class positions and allows the elite to control the masses. • Quality education and educational opportunities are not equally distributed. • Education provides indoctrination into the capitalist ideology. • Cultural imperialism - Indoctrination into the dominant culture of a society.