SOCIAL POLICY
- Created by: Jacob Keyte
- Created on: 19-05-15 13:53
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- Social Policy
- Butler Act 1944- Functionalists
- Shaped the idea of meritocracy ( That the best rises to the top) that individuals should achieve in education through their own hard work
- Introduction of 11+
- Tripartite system Grammar, Technical Secondary
- Advantages -- Everyone can go to school free - whatever mark they get
- Better chance of work in the future
- Disadvantage -- You'd get a better mark if you have more money -- Culture Capital
- Unreliable as not everyone is mature at 11
- Evaluation -- Functionalists would agree with this because of Parsons of Parsons Meritocracy and therfore if they were going to be smart they would be
- Shaped the idea of meritocracy ( That the best rises to the top) that individuals should achieve in education through their own hard work
- Comprehensive Schools 1965
- Catchment area based education, everyone around goes to the same place
- Advantages -- All Children get access the same quality of schooling
- Equal status with children
- Disadvantages -- Although everyone went to the same school social segregation occurred
- Streaming sets was unfair
- Evaluation-- Marxists agree that is good
- New Right think it's good as the experts know better than others
- Education Reform Act 1988
- National Curriculum Attend school from 5-16 study thee same subjects
- Advantages-- Everyone was taught the same therefore they had an equal opportunity at work
- Didn't have to near to attend
- Disadvantages -- League tables showed raw mark, with no indication of social circumstances
- Schools become marketed
- Evaluation -=- Guborn Youdell -- showed schools helped kids more if they were on the GCSE border rater than everyone
- Butler Act 1944- Functionalists
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