Social Control Schools are responsible for teaching discipline, respect, obedience, punctuality, and perseverance. Social Placement Schools are responsible for identifying the most qualified people to fill advanced positions in society. Students are often channeled into programs on the basis of their ability and academic achievement. Change and Innovation Schools are sources of change and innovation. College and university faculty are expected to conduct research and publish new knowledge that benefits the overall society.
School also provides the service of match-making.
We often meet our future mates in school. The transmission of cultural values and norms is often done quietly via the hidden curriculum. Cultural Capital Cultural capital are social assets such as values, beliefs, attitudes, and competencies in language and culture that they learn at home, but which are reinforced in school. B. Conflict Perspective 1. One positive benefit of locally based education is that we teach a greater diversity of material to the population at large.