The Functionalist Perspective on The Education System
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- The Functionalist Perspective on The Education System
- Durkheim (1903)
- Social solidarity
- School acts as a 'society in miniture'
- Prepares us for life in the wider society
- Individuals need to feel united with others
- Otherwise people would not cooperate and society will colapse
- Important agency of socialisation
- Transmits society's shared culture and core values from one generation to the next
- Builds and maintain value consensus
- Achieved by both the overt and hidden curriculum
- Builds and maintain value consensus
- Transmits society's shared culture and core values from one generation to the next
- Examples
- Teaching and singing the national anthem
- Being punctual
- Subjects like RS and Citizenship
- Assembly
- Uniform
- Event like Sports Day
- Manners and Morals
- Unites people together
- School acts as a 'society in miniture'
- Specialist Skills
- Provides a trained and qualified labour force
- Complex division of labour
- Workforce us highly specialised in order for society's economic needs to be met efficiently
- Equips individuals for work
- Teaches specialist skills needed for specific occupations
- Allows everyone to participate in the economy
- Teaches specialist skills needed for specific occupations
- Equips individuals for work
- Workforce us highly specialised in order for society's economic needs to be met efficiently
- Complex division of labour
- Examples
- Exams
- Vocational courses
- DT
- Provides a trained and qualified labour force
- Social solidarity
- Talcott Parsons (1961)
- Schools are the 'focal socialising agency'
- Acts as a bridge between family and wider society
- The particularistic values and ascribed status of the family
- Rules apply only to that particular child
- The universalistic values and achieved status of the wider society
- Bridge
- The particularistic values and ascribed status of the family
- Rules apply only to that particular child
- The particularistic values and ascribed status of the family
- Impersonal rules and standards that apply to everyone
- Bridge
- The particularistic values and ascribed status of the family
- Acts as a bridge between family and wider society
- Schools prepare for life in a meritocratic society
- Everyone is given an equal opportunity to succeed
- Individuals achieve rewards based on their own effort and ability
- Encourages competition and a highly motivated, achievement-orientated workforce
- Individuals achieve rewards based on their own effort and ability
- Socialised us into meritocratic values
- Everyone is given an equal opportunity to succeed
- Examples
- Teaching everyone to follow the same rules
- Judge everyone by the same criteria - examination system
- Rewards - stickers, praises
- Schools are the 'focal socialising agency'
- Davis & Moore (1945)
- Selection and Role Allocation
- Education system is like a sieve
- Sifts and sorts us
- Grades people according to ability
- Ensures the most talented and the most qualified are allocated to the most important jobs
- Equality educational opportunity
- Inequality is necessary and useful for society
- Ensures the most talented and the most qualified are allocated to the most important jobs
- Grades people according to ability
- Sifts and sorts us
- Education system is like a sieve
- Examples
- Exams - tiers
- Setting and streaming
- Competition
- Selection and Role Allocation
- Bleu & Duncan (1978)
- Modern economy depends for its prosperity on using its human capital - its workers skills
- Meritocratic system best way of making effective use of people's talents to maximise their productivity
- Government investment in education and training is thus seen to lead to greater economic efficiency and higher living standards
- Meritocratic system best way of making effective use of people's talents to maximise their productivity
- Examples
- Work experience
- Apprenticeships/vocational
- Modern economy depends for its prosperity on using its human capital - its workers skills
- PERFORMS A BENEFICIAL ROLE IN SOCIETY
- A structuralist theory
- Sees individuals as entirely shaped by the structure of society
- Society is a system of independent parts
- Consensus approach
- Value consensus
- Consensus approach
- Social Control
- In order for society to function smoothly there must be some regulation
- Through education system people learn to accept rules and authority
- In order for society to function smoothly there must be some regulation
- Economic Role
- Serves the need of economy
- Political Role
- Through education system people will accept the political system and taught to be effective citizens
- Durkheim (1903)
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