Sociologists for the Role of the Education
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- Sociologists for the Role of the Education System.
- Functionalism
- Secondary Socialisation: Education passes on core values.
- Role Allocation: Education sorts people into the appropriate jobs.
- DAVIS AND MOORE: every society sorts its members into different positions.
- "Position of Stratification"- system of unequal rewards (e.g. more money) to motivate people to train for top positions.
- DAVIS AND MOORE: every society sorts its members into different positions.
- Skill Provision: Education teaches the skills needed in work, and by the economy.
- Meritocracy: the Education System is meritocratic, which means social rewards are allocated by talent and effort, not social position.
- CRITICISMS
- Marxists would argue that the Education System is not meritocratic.
- Evidence in terms of class, gender and ethnicity.
- Functionalists ignore the negative aspects of Education, e.g. the impact of bullying, or the constriction of class.
- Doesn't look at conflict in society- e.g. how the Education System serves the interest of the R/C.
- Material and cultural capital can be seen as more important in education, therefore role allocation is not working properly.
- Marxists would argue that the Education System is not meritocratic.
- Marxism
- Corresponde-nce Theory: children= workers, teachers= boss. School reflects workplace.
- BOWLES AND GINTIS: education prepares children for the world of work.
- Education teaches pupils to accept hierarchy.
- Public motivated by grades to do work, in the working world they're motivated by money.
- Pupils are taught to do what they are told.
- Links to class: W/C students may not do as well in school, reflects in the working world.
- Myth of Meritocracy: believe that the Education System is not meritocratic, but is based on class/ status in society.
- Taught through the 'hidden curriculum'.
- BOWLES AND GINTIS: education prepares children for the world of work.
- Reproduces class inequality: M/C use their material and cultural capital to ensure that their children get into the best schools and the top sets, meaning they get the best jobs.
- ALTHUSSER: Education formed part of the ‘ideological state apparatus’.
- Education makes children unaware of exploitation and this makes them easy to control.
- Education outlines that Capitalism is just and reasonable, and best way of organising society.
- Schools encourage pupils to accept their future roles, and produce a compliant and obedient workforce.
- Links to "hidden curriculum"- Bowles and Gintis.
- ALTHUSSER: Education formed part of the ‘ideological state apparatus’.
- CRITICISM
- GIROUX: Marxist theory is too deterministic. He argues that working class pupils are not entirely molded by the capitalist system, and do not accept everything
- PAUL WILLIS: (neo-Marxist) looked at 12 W/C boys' attitude to school. Concluded that pupils rebelling is evidence that not all pupils are passive, subordinate people ("hidden curriculum").
- Therefore, not all pupils are 'brainwashed' with the values and norms that benefit the ruling class, some actively reject these.
- However, Willis still believes that this counter-school culture still produces workers who are easily exploited by their future employers
- W/C boys believed that manual jobs were 'proper jobs'- meaning they were still getting the lower paid jobs.
- Therefore, not all pupils are 'brainwashed' with the values and norms that benefit the ruling class, some actively reject these.
- PAUL WILLIS: (neo-Marxist) looked at 12 W/C boys' attitude to school. Concluded that pupils rebelling is evidence that not all pupils are passive, subordinate people ("hidden curriculum").
- Some W/C kids don't accept their role- can work harder than what's expected from them in education.
- GIROUX: Marxist theory is too deterministic. He argues that working class pupils are not entirely molded by the capitalist system, and do not accept everything
- Corresponde-nce Theory: children= workers, teachers= boss. School reflects workplace.
- Functionalism
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