Soc/EDS 126Hugh (“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: – small schools, – charter schools, – private schools; voucher plans– local or school-site decision making– professionalizing the teaching corps

3. The Future

• “Information Age?” • What kinds of schools?• Democratic Resurgence?• New Forms of Stratification: Based on Access to

Technology?

Democratic Function

TechnicalFunction

1787 18651983

Functions of Education In Historical Context

The Course at a Glance

Today

Critique

Agricultural Economy

IndustrialEconomy

InformationEconomy?

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