Of course every individual comes to school to receive a piece of paper as the stepping stone to get over their obstacle and ultimately retrieve a good managing job. What people don’t understand is that without additional skills that employers look for in a position, you stand equivalent to the millions of others with the same, if not more prestigious, college degree and like a simple speech presentation you have no attention grabber. And as I look into the school classroom the background profile is various around the chart implying that the learning styles of each individual is probably different is some way. When studying sociology, family, education, economy, religion, and government make up the five social institutions that society functions through. Of these five, with the absence of the smallest yet most significant institution, the entire society would break down and that is the family. From past to present, our economic structure has advanced from agricultural, industrial, post-industrial, now to a more technological type of industry which requires more education now than ever before. Parents didn’t need an education for agriculture when they only needed to know how to farm and crop, but those times have past and the present and future industries to come require a degree. As the times change, many children are brought up into this era of technology and the prime distributor of information, the parents; don’t even have a high school degree. Race and ethnicity places a roll in this under education of families since we understand that the occurrence of today is the product of the things that took place in the past. For example, many African Americans didn’t always have access to schooling and was denied a proper education. “The basic assumption of the Sociology of Knowledge is that what a person knows is determined by the society of which he is a part. More specifically, the location of the individual within a certain society will determine his knowledge. Some theorists have argued that the word determined should be replaced by the word influence. (Lander 117)” If you take a look overseas to Japanese families that put importance in family and education, when a Japanese student graduates high school he or she can come to America and possess every skill necessary to start a 6-Figure and up position; skills that make these individuals over qualified for fast food restaurants like McDonalds, Burger King etc… These are two different background approaches to education and outcomes vary. However, every single person in spite the color of their skin possesses something within that the other does not have and this is a unique trait that each person should construct and build upon to identify oneself and at the same time take education seriously. “The differentness of race, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. It is by the development of these gifts that every race must justify its right to exist. (Woodson 8)” As stated in the book “The Mis-Education of The Negro,” the color of one’s skin does not and should not determine powerful vices the powerlessness. Knowledge, self-education, and development on individual gifts create a superior being. The first hump of getting to where you need to be is the high school diploma and college degree. It’s not enforced in schooling but the option of community service is mentioned. Some schools even make community service mandatory because they know how pertinent it is to a growing intellect to provide a service to the community while making it a learning experience at the same time. Many students who attend school with the vague ideas about what they want in the future can definitely benefit from community service activities. Dr. Woodson quotes that “history shows that it does not matter who is in power… those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginning.”
Work Cited
Woodson, Cater G. The Mis-Education of The Negro. First Edition. Chicago, Illinois: African AMerican Images, 1993. Print.
Ladner, Joyce A. The Death of White Sociology. First Edition. Baltimore, Maryland: Black Classic Press, 1973. Print.
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