The role of education in society
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- Role of education in society
- Functionalism
- Socialisation
- Talcott Parsons
- Education helps produce a value consensus
- Talcott Parsons
- Skills provision
- Education teaches the skills required by a modern society
- Role allocation
- Davis and Moore
- Education allocates people to the most appropriate job for their talents, using exams and qualifications
- Davis and Moore
- Socialisation
- Marxism
- Louis Althusser
- Education reproduces the inequalities and social relations of production in capitalist society
- Legitimates the inequalities through the myth of meritocracy
- Education reproduces the inequalities and social relations of production in capitalist society
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Working classes are duped into accepting that their failure and limited social mobility are justified
- Correspondence theory
- Bowles and Gintis
- Education is controlled by capitalists and serves their interests
- Bowles and Gintis
- Louis Althusser
- Neo-marxism
- Henry Giroux
- The working class actively shape their own education and sometimes resist the discipline imposed on them by schools
- Paul Willis
- Learning to Labour
- Henry Giroux
- New Right
- Chubb and Moe
- State education is unresponsive to the needs of pupils and parents and tends to have low standards
- Chubb and Moe
- Postmodernism
- Usher, Bryan and Johnston
- Adult education
- Haralambos and Holborn
- There is greater centralisation in some aspects of education rather than greater diversity and choice
- Usher, Bryan and Johnston
- Functionalism
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