Role of Education: Functionalism
- Created by: Megnicpip
- Created on: 25-02-18 16:09
View mindmap
- Role of Education: Functionalism
- Functionalist Belief
- A system of interconnected parts held together by a shared culture or value consensus
- Each part of society performs functions that help to maintain society as a whole
- Education: Seek to discover what functions it performs to benefit society
- A consensus approach
- Durkheim
- Solidarity
- The education system transmits society's culture from one generation to the next
- Rules that apply to everyone that are then carried through to the workplace and community
- Completed through the curriculm
- History provides a sense of shared heritage
- Living in Modern Britain encourages the values of tolerance and acceptance of others
- The education system transmits society's culture from one generation to the next
- Specialist Skills
- The production of a small item involves the cooperation of many
- This cooperation promotes social solidarity
- Education teaches individuals the specialist knowledge and skills needed to play their part in the social division of labour
- The production of a small item involves the cooperation of many
- Solidarity
- Parsons
- School is a 'focul socialising agency'
- A bridge between the family and modern society
- School and society are meritocratic
- Everyone is given an equal opportunity
- Individuals achieve through their own effort and ability
- Blau and Duncan
- Human Capital
- Davis and Moore
- Schools perform the function of selecting and allocating pupils to their future work roles
- By assessing individuals schools match students to best suited roles
- Inequality is neccessary
- Most important roles in society are filled by the most talented people
- Creates competition
- Most important roles in society are filled by the most talented people
- Evaluation
- The idea of meritocracy assumes that everyone has an equal opportune chance of success
- Cultural and material deprivation and internal factors
- The way education is experienced differs greatly e.g. gender differences
- Wong
- Over-socialised view of people as mere puppets
- Wrongly imply that pupils passively accept all they are told and never reject school values
- New Right: State education fails to prepare young people adequatley for work. Discourages efficiency, competition and choice
- Marxists: education in capitalist society only transmits the ideology of the minority
- Tumin
- D&M have a circular argument high salary jobs only attract a high salary because they are important
- The idea of meritocracy assumes that everyone has an equal opportune chance of success
- Functionalist Belief
Comments
No comments have yet been made