Soc/EDS 126
Hugh (“Bud”) Mehan
WELCOME!
Session 1:
Course Organization & Topics
Sociology/EDS 126:
Day #1:Getting Organized
• Add/Drop: Computer controlled
• Office Hours:
– Tu & Th 3:30-4:30 CREATE;
– Tu & Th 12:30-2:00 BY APPOINTMENT
– (Social Science Res. Bldg, Thurgood Marshall College)
• Sections: Voluntary Th 1:00-1:50; Th 3:30-4:30,
Pepper Canyon Room 304
– Helps master sociological idiom and modes of
explanation
– Provides assistance with readings, writing essays that
emphasize sociological explanations
Getting Organized,
Readings and Lectures
• Readings: Course Packet for sale at
Cal Copy, Holiday Court
• Lecture notes on line at:
http://create.ucsd.edu starting
Thursday
• Weekly Reflections: 1-2 pages each
week on readings and lectures;
submitted in groups of 4
Exams and Projects
• Exams: One Take Home Midterm and
a Take Home Final Exam
• Questions will ask for Sociological
analysis (Go to Section!)
– Midterm: assigned on Thursday of
week 5, due on Tuesday of week 6
– Take home final –due exam week;
or: Project
Course Topics: 1. The Past
• The relationship between the political economy of
US society and the organization of schooling at
key historical moments—
– Colonial (1789ff) agricultural> one room school
house;
– key function: “democratic citizenship”
– Early Industrial (1865—1910)> “common school”;
– key function: assimilation of new immigrants
– Developed Industrial (1910-1950s): > “school as
factory”;
– key function: preparation for capitalism
– The critique of the factory model
2. The Current Situation
(1983- present)
Many Reforms:
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small schools,
charter schools,
private schools; voucher plans
local or school-site decision making
professionalizing the teaching corps
3. The Future
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“Information Age?”
What kinds of schools?
Democratic Resurgence?
New Forms of Stratification: Based on Access to
Technology?
The Course at a Glance
Democratic
Function
Technical
Function
Agricultural
Economy
1787
Critique
Information
Economy?
Industrial
Economy
1865
1983
Functions of Education
In Historical Context
Today
Interesting Courses
• TMC 198: (Bud Mehan & Rafael Hernandez)
– Voluntary tutoring at Preuss, Gompers, Lincoln HS
– Internships at those schools
– Contact Mariko Cavey (mcavey@ucsd.edu
• ETHN 189: California’s Public Education Crisis
– Team taught
– Cross Cultural Center, Fridays: 12-2:50
• CAT 124: (Rafael Hernandez) On-0line tutoring
Group Formation
• Assemble in Groups of 4
• Fill in names, e-mail addresses of group
members for our use