Institutions Analysis

Education and
Inequality
Lilian Leung
Soc 001 #72270

The History of Education

Education is a social institution dedicated to
the formal process of transmitting culture
from teachers to students.
Back in the time when the America only has
the 13 colonies; only most of the upper class
can get good educations.
The boys would study more advanced and
academic subjects while the girls learn how to
assumes the jobs of mistress of a plantation.
Education was provided for white students
only and was privately taught.

Why is Education is Important?

Schools provide a place where students are
exposed to the knowledge of those who have gone
before them.
It enables students to build on their wisdom as
they carve out their pathways into the future.
W.E.B. Du Bois, a sociologist, said, The true
college will ever have one goal not to earn meat,
but to know the end and aim of that life which
meat nourishes.

Education and Inequality

People assumed that schools will
provide a fair chance of success for
every single one; but is that really true?
There are three major factors that
affect students education performance:
Parents education levels
Neighborhoods/ Minorities
Gender

Effects of Parents Educational

Background and Children's
Educational Success
There are researches and studies that
found out that there are some effects of
parents education level toward
students education performance.
According to Eric F. Dubow, a social
researcher in University of Michigan
and Bowling Green State University,
stated that parents educational level
when the child was 8 years old
significantly predicted educational and
occupational success for the child 40
years later. (Dubow, 224)

Bad Neighborhood / Minority

There are lots of public school in America
where they never provide a good education
for the students.

Reasons:
Budget cut
Dangerous neighborhoods lead to bad
influence toward the students.

According to the book, poor and minority

backgrounds are especially likely to suffer
from the escalation of qualification, because
they may lack the financial resources needed
to obtain degree after degree.

Education and Inequality of Gender:

The Change overtime
During the colonial times in America, the boys usually get better

education than the girls.

Not until later the 90s, the women start fighting for their rights and it
starts to change overtime.
Now, everyone, no matter if you are a male or female, you get the same
amounts of education.
Study also show that females are more likely to be successful in
education and career path than males.
However, before that, gender inequality on education is a serious
problem:
According to an article, Educational Gender-Equality and Women
Empowerment as Determinants of National Transformation: Implication
for Curriculum Development, it states that, the results showed that the
independent variables have significant influence on National
Transformation. It was recommended that; gender issues should be a
National concern; also the curriculum developers should take cognizance
of both boys and girls during curriculum planning. (Folorunso).

How has education changed over

time?
The education system in the United States has seen many
changes over the past 250 years.
How can we prove that?
We can look at some writers who share their stories about their
own experiences.
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used
Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them.

The Pact: Three Young Men Make a

Promise and Fulfill a Dream
The Pact is about three young men who grew up on the streets of Newark,
facing city life's temptations, pitfalls, even jail; but ending up becoming
doctors.

It is a very influencing novels for students to read; it is because it shows

that although they have been to all these downfalls; they still end up
going to really good universities is because the education during that time
is giving them lots of opportunities.

Quotes that explain who bad neighborhood give the students negative
influence:

"Sometimes it felt surreal, walking past the drunks, dealers, and

addicts on my way home from dental school with a pile of books."

"On the streets where I grew up, you didn't worry about
consequences. If someone disrespected you, you beat his ass.
Period,"

The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens

Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around
Them.
The Freedom Writers Diary is about an English teacher at Wilson
High School in Long beach, a very dangerous neighborhood ,
Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk"
students to change themselves and the world around them.
In the book, most of the students experienced seeing their loved
one die on the street, getting raped on the street, and more
horrible experiments. However, they overcome all those
challenges and going to college at the end. How? Why?
The teachers. The teachers is one of the reason why the
education is improving overtime. The more better teachers the
society we get, they better education student receive, the
brighter the future will be.

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Project 2: Institutions Analysis

1. Discuss the history of your institution. How did it emerge? How did it come into
existence?
2. How do members of society perceive your institution?
3. How do members of the institution perceive itself (its own institution)?
4. How has the institution changed over time?
5. What has caused various institutions to change?
6. Discuss any stable features of the institution, that is, features that have not
changed.
7. As a way to better accommodate members of society, how would you improve
your institution?
8. Who are the major participants in the institution? What are their roles and
statuses?
9. Does your institution work better for some members of society (as opposed to
others)?