Functionalist
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- Created on: 19-02-22 14:21
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- Functionalist (Education)
- Durkheim's two positive functions of Education
- Social Solidarity
- mechanical solidarity
- Education passes on shared heritage
- e.g. History, literature, music
- Therefore students understand aspects of culture
- e.g. History, literature, music
- Education passes on shared heritage
- [new] Modern era (organic solidarity)
- teaching of birtish values
- democracy
- the rule of law
- Individual liberty
- Causes Communal gathering
- Assemblies, prize giving
- Promotes values of community
- Assemblies, prize giving
- Causes Social cohesion
- Sport activities, house systems
- Sense of unity
- Sport activities, house systems
- Criticism
- Postmodernist: does a multicultural society need shared values?
- Hargreaves (1982) the education system encourages individualism and competition
- Ignores negative side effects such as bullying
- mechanical solidarity
- Specialist skills (for work)
- Vocational education
- advanced knowledge, which requires years of formal education
- Work-place solidarity is based on co-operation between people with very different skill sets
- Crticism
- Marxist: Over qualified work force
- Feminist: Girls discourage from certain subjects
- Postmodernist: Teaching to test kills creativity
- Social Solidarity
- Parson's Secondary Socialisation (functions for society learned through school)
- How does education achieve this?
- Hidden curriculum
- Norms and values of school
- Competition between students
- Contemporary examples
- School unifrom policies
- Disciplinary policies of school (rules)
- Ofsted enourage cultural capital implicitly
- Criticisms
- Marxist: Hidden curriculum prepares students for exploitation by trasmitting values of capitalism
- Post mondernist: fragmented nature of society means socilaistion by various agents
- Clash of working class and middle class values in education leads to underachievement
- How does education achieve this?
- Davis and Moore: Role Allocation for society
- How education achieves this
- Most able students end up in higher positions in society
- Promotes ideas of social mobility and meritocracy
- Lower ability end up in low-skilled positions
- Contemporary examples
- kids are placed in sets according to their skill levels
- less successfull children may choose vocational eductation, therefore learning manual labour
- Universities offer places to kids accoring to their predicted grades
- Criticisms
- Marxists belive meritocracy is a myth making- machine
- Feminist: too much focus on male professions, leading to inequality and gender pay gap
- Private education students are at more of an advantage
- How education achieves this
- Durkheim's two positive functions of Education
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