Education
- Created by: Revisonf
- Created on: 05-01-14 17:19
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- Education
- Functionalists:
- Examine institutions in terms of a positive role in society.
- Believe that schools/colleges teach skills necessary for the modern society.
- Vocational courses help individuals gain an insight on working life.
- Functionalists see that the education system grades students according to their ability and placing individuals in sectors they are most suited to.
- Those who achieve high qualifications are seen as more able and they recieve a higher pay and higher status in society; this is know as the meritocratic system.
- Marxists:
- Examines society in terms of a struggle between powerful and less powerful groups.
- Argue that the powerful groups in society use the education system to impose their own beliefs and values on the rest of society.
- See education as reinforcing the class system. The lower class are prepared for lowe-status jobs, whereas, the upper class are prepared for higher skilled jobs.
- Do not believe the education system provides equal opportunities for everyone. It is designed to benefit the more powerful groups.
- They believe that working-class students are more rejected by teahers and schools
- They do no view society as a meritocratic because it dfoes not offer an equal oppurtunity to all groups in society.
- Functionalists:
- Do not believe the education system provides equal opportunities for everyone. It is designed to benefit the more powerful groups.
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