Education maximizes individuals' chances of academic success, by preparing them to either engage in further academic education or to participate in the occupational structure. ... This research study will attempt to demonstrate the major hypothesis that gender inequality in the educational system results from the formal structure of elementary schools, that is, the formal curriculum, as well as from the informal structure of elementary schools, that is, the informal or hidden curriculum, which leads to differential expectations and treatment of females and males. ... The overall structu...

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It is the communal beliefs, values and norms which are passed on from one generation to the other; here parallels can be drawn to notion of class consciousness in Marx and general will in Rousseau. ... One of Durkheim's most famous ideas is that social pathologies result from lack of moral regulation and overregulation (through mandatory or unsolicited division of labor) will result in a form of anomie; here parallels can be drawn between Marx's alienation and anomie brought upon by extreme pressure on an individual. ...

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INTRODUCTION Especially in the last decade a vast number of publications were done on the subject of increasing dependence in the world; changing the name from globalization to mc-donaldization, new-colonization or financial integration. However, whichever term is used, there is a social fact, by...

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