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Mind Map by MeganAbigail, updated more than 1 year ago
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The Role of Education,
Functionalism and the New Right
- Functionalism
- A consensus approach
- Durkheim
- Social Solidarity
- o make people feel the are part of a single "body"
or community. School transmits society's culture
and acts as a "society miniature" to prepare kids
- o make people feel the are part of a single "body"
or community. School transmits society's culture
and acts as a "society miniature" to prepare kids
- Specialist Skills
- Modern industrial economies have a complex
division of labour where even the production of
one item may involve the co operation of many
specialists.
- Education teaches individuals the specialist skills
they need to play their part in the social division
of labour
- Education teaches individuals the specialist skills
they need to play their part in the social division
of labour
- Modern industrial economies have a complex
division of labour where even the production of
one item may involve the co operation of many
specialists.
- Social Solidarity
- Parsons
- Learn unversalistic Standards
- Teaches children that in society
that we are all viewed as the same
and we all have the same rules
- Teaches children that in society
that we are all viewed as the same
and we all have the same rules
- Teaches Shared values of society
- Shows that status is achieved
not ascribed. You can change
your status depending on how
hard you work
- Shows that status is achieved
not ascribed. You can change
your status depending on how
hard you work
- Facilitates Meritocracy
- The idea that
everyone has the
same
opportunities
- The idea that
everyone has the
same
opportunities
- Learn unversalistic Standards
- Davis and Moore
- Assessing children to how they act,
their abilities ect. school helps assign
them to the job they are most suited to
- Assessing children to how they act,
their abilities ect. school helps assign
them to the job they are most suited to
- Criticisms
- There is evidence that equality of opportunity does
not exist either in school or society, achievement is
influenced by class, ethnicity ect.
- The New Right argue that education does not teach the
specialist skills needed in society as some school
subjects show limited usefulness in work
- There is evidence that equality of opportunity does
not exist either in school or society, achievement is
influenced by class, ethnicity ect.
- A consensus approach
- The New Right
- They share the functionalist view that some people
are naturally more talented than others and so favour a
meritocratic school system
- However they do not think that the current
system does this because it is run by the
state
- However they do not think that the current
system does this because it is run by the
state
- They argue the state uses
education to impose their own
views and impose a one size fits
all education system
- Chubb and Moe
- Argue state education has failed
to create equality of opportunity
- They propose the marketisation of education by giving parents
vouchers to spend on their choice of school, making it the
schools main source of income
- Argue state education has failed
to create equality of opportunity
- The role of the state
- The state imposes the framework for schools in
which they must compete e.g. league tables
- The state should also transmit a single shared
culture by imposing a single national curriculum
and so oppose multi cultural education
- The state imposes the framework for schools in
which they must compete e.g. league tables
- Criticsms
- In rural areas there are no
opportunities for a market as there
is no other schools to go to
- The real cause of low educational
standards is social inequality and
not state control
- Marxists argue the single national
identity is the culture of the dominant R/C
- In rural areas there are no
opportunities for a market as there
is no other schools to go to
- They share the functionalist view that some people
are naturally more talented than others and so favour a
meritocratic school system
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