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Functionalist perspective on education
- Durkheim- solidarity&skills
- the focuses of
education are
creating
soliarity skills
and teaching
specialist skills
- the education system helps to
transmit beliefs and values from one
generation to the next. It's individual
members must feel part of a
comunity so they dont persue their
own selfish desires.
- Specialist skills
teached individuals
knowledge needed to
play their part in the
division of labour
- the focuses of
education are
creating
soliarity skills
and teaching
specialist skills
- Parsons- Meritocracy
- Sees school as
focal socialising
agency and a
bridge between the
family and wider
society
- Unlike the family, school and wider society judge
us by the same impersonal standards e.g same
exam, same pass mark (how education links to
wider society)
- Therefore pupils at school achieve
grades based on individual strength
and efforts, similarly to how at work
we gain promotion, based on own
efforts and ability.
- Key words- equal
opportunity and
metocratic principles
- Sees school as
focal socialising
agency and a
bridge between the
family and wider
society
- David and Moore- Role allocation
- Davis and Moore agree with Parsons that
education is a device for selection and
allocation, however, they focus on how
education links to social inequality
- Not everyone is equally talented so society has to
offer higher rewards for more skilled jobs which
creates competition so society can select the most
talented
- Education
proves ground of
ability and sifts
and sorts
according to
talent.
- A meritocratic education
system enables each
person to be suited to the
job best suited to their
abilities
- Davis and Moore agree with Parsons that
education is a device for selection and
allocation, however, they focus on how
education links to social inequality
- Chubb and Moe- The new right and consumer choice
- State education has failed to
provide equal oppotunities for
disadvantaged groups
- State education
fails to produce
pupils with skills
needed for the
economy
- Propose the voucher system which would, like
private schools, increase school standards and
competition, and responsive parents as they are
paying with their voucher. Therefore like private
businesses schools would be improving the
product for money (pupils.)
- State education has failed to
provide equal oppotunities for
disadvantaged groups
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