Functionalist's view on education
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- Functionalist's view on education
- value consensus theory
- society is a system held together by a shared culture - each part of society performs functions that help to maintain society as a whole
- Durkheim
- education system helps to create social solidarity
- it transmitts societies norms and values
- is 'society in miniture'
- education teaches pupils their specialist skills for society
- education system helps to create social solidarity
- Parsons
- education acts as a bridge between the family and wider society
- children in the family
- taught particularistic standards
- ascribed status
- our position in society is determined by fixed characteristics that we are born with and cannot usually change
- children in school and society
- taught universalistic standards
- achieved status
- occurs where an individual's position is the result of their effort and ability
- Davis and Moore
- role allocation
- inequality is necessary to ensure that the most important roles in society are filled by the most talented people
- Criticisms
- Marxists: education in a capitalist society only transmits the ideology of ruling class
- N.R: education fails to prepare young people adequately for work
- functionalists wrongly imply pupils passively accept all they are taught and never reject the school's values
- value consensus theory
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