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The role of education;
Functionalism + the New Right
- Functionalists perspective on edu
- Durkheim; 2 functions-solidarity+skills
- Society needs a sense of solidarity-people
feel part of a community (not be selfish)
=Edu transmits culture (beliefs+values)
- school-a society in mini,
preping us for wider society Eg
cooperating with other people
- school-a society in mini,
preping us for wider society Eg
cooperating with other people
- Edu teaches specialist knowledge
+skills needed to play their part in
the social division of labour
- Society needs a sense of solidarity-people
feel part of a community (not be selfish)
=Edu transmits culture (beliefs+values)
- Parsons meritocracy
- School is the focal socialising agency-acts
as a bridge between family+wider society
as they operate on different principles
- Family-child status-ascribed (fixed) Society judges everyone by same
universalistic+impersonal standards Same laws Society-status is acheived
- Family-child status-ascribed (fixed) Society judges everyone by same
universalistic+impersonal standards Same laws Society-status is acheived
- School is the focal socialising agency-acts
as a bridge between family+wider society
as they operate on different principles
- Davis+Moore; role allocation
- Inequality is necessary to ensure the most
talented fill important roles Society offers high
rewards for these roles=competition+selection
- Edu provides a ground for ability Individuals
can show what they can do The most able
gain the highest qualifications
- Edu provides a ground for ability Individuals
can show what they can do The most able
gain the highest qualifications
- Inequality is necessary to ensure the most
talented fill important roles Society offers high
rewards for these roles=competition+selection
- Eval
- Evidence shows that equal opportunity don't exist
- Davis+moore put forward a cicular argument (a job is important because
it is highly rewarded+it is highly rewarded because it is important)
- Marxists-edu-transmts ideology of ruling class
- Functionalists have an over-socialised view of people as
mere puppets Pupils dont just accept all they are taught
- Evidence shows that equal opportunity don't exist
- Durkheim; 2 functions-solidarity+skills
- New rights perspective on education
(favour marketisation of edu)
- Same as funcs-believe some are naturally more
talented, favour edu system with competition+preping
children for work+believe edu should instil culture
- Key difference New Right
don't believe edu system is
acheiving these goals
- Key difference New Right
don't believe edu system is
acheiving these goals
- Politicians, etc. use their power to impose
there view The state takes a 1-size-fits-all
approach+consumers have no say
- Bad schools are not answerable to their
consumers=low standards=less qualified
workforce+less prosperous economy
- Solution=marketisation; Competition
to empower consumers Greater
diversity, choice+efficiency
- Solution=marketisation; Competition
to empower consumers Greater
diversity, choice+efficiency
- Bad schools are not answerable to their
consumers=low standards=less qualified
workforce+less prosperous economy
- Chubb+Moe; believe American
state edu needs marketisation
- Disadvan groups-badly served by state edu Failed
to create equality+teach pupils needed skills Private
schools-better as they are answerable to parents
- Based on; comparing acheivement of 60,000 pupils
from state+private schools+parent surveys+case
studies Low income pupils do better in private edu
- Based on; comparing acheivement of 60,000 pupils
from state+private schools+parent surveys+case
studies Low income pupils do better in private edu
- Propose a system in which
families given a voucher for a
school of their choice=competition
- Disadvan groups-badly served by state edu Failed
to create equality+teach pupils needed skills Private
schools-better as they are answerable to parents
- 2 roles for state; to impose framework
for competing schools+ensure schools
transmitt culture(national curriculum)
- Eval
- Class inequality as MC have advan (cultural+economic capital)
- Low edu standards result of social inequality
+inadequate funding not state control
- Contradiction-parental choice but imposed national curriculum
- Marxists argue edu imposes not culture but culture of ruling class
- Class inequality as MC have advan (cultural+economic capital)
- Same as funcs-believe some are naturally more
talented, favour edu system with competition+preping
children for work+believe edu should instil culture
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