Functionalism
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- Created on: 01-06-17 10:02
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- Functionalism
- Durkiem
- Social Solidarity
- Individual's must feel part of a single body or community
- Social life would be impossible because they would follow their own selfish desires
- Education creates social solidarity by transmitting societies culture
- Shared belefid and values
- School acts as a society in miniature preparing us for wider society
- Both school and work co-operate with people who are neither friends or family
- Individual's must feel part of a single body or community
- Specialist Skills
- Modern industrial economies have complex division of labour
- Co-operation of different specialist skills
- Education teaches individuals the skills and knowledge
- Prepares them for their part in the division of labour
- Modern industrial economies have complex division of labour
- Social Solidarity
- Parsons
- Meritocracy
- School is the focal socialising agency
- Acts as a bridge between family and wider society
- In the family, the child is judge by particularistic standards
- Rules that apply only to that child
- In school and society people are judged universalistic
- Same policies and laws, exams apply to all
- Preparing us to move from the family to society
- School and society based on meritocratic principles
- Everyone given equal opportunities and rewarded on own efforts
- School is the focal socialising agency
- Meritocracy
- Davis and Moore
- Role Allocation
- Schools act as the function of selection and allocation
- Asses a child's ability and pair them to the best suited career and job
- inequality is necessary to ensure the most important jobs are filled
- Not everyone is equally talented, this encourages people to work hard to get the rewarding jobs
- Education is where individuals show what they can do
- It shifts and sorts us according to our ability
- Schools act as the function of selection and allocation
- Role Allocation
- Durkiem
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