Fuctionalism and Education
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- Functionalism and Education
- Parsons' 3 Functions
- Social
- Bridge between family and wider society
- Main agency for secondary socialisation, builds on primary and develops value consensus
- Value consensus = agreement in society's values
- Meritocracy
- Rewards achieved through talent and effort, status achieved, rewards no on background
- Equality of opportunity = equal chance through exams, all sat the same
- School = miniature society in preparation for wider society
- Economic
- Role allocation
- Sifting and sorting into jobs and social roles
- Exams test students and match talents to jobs
- Role allocation
- Social
- Durkheim's 2 Functions
- Social
- Social solidarity
- Need shared norms and values to prevent anomie and selfishness
- Education develops these similarities to bind society together
- Acts as a miniature society to prepare for wider society
- Economic
- Preparation for work and teaching specialist skills
- Preindustrial = Jobs unspecialised and basic skills provided by family
- Industrial = jobs specialised and specific skills and knowledge needed
- Teach he skills needed for work
- Social
- Davis and Moore's 1 Funcion
- Role allocation
- For society to work, most talented needs to be in most important jobs. To encourage this they must have highest rewards
- Inequality is important to ensure most talented get most important jobs but not everybody is equally talented
- Role allocation
- Evaluation
- Everybody has equal opportunity through exams
- New Right agree with meritocracy due to exams
- Same exams are unfair as some do better than others
- E.g. material/cultural deprivation
- New Right believe state education doesn't give knowledge of working world
- Parsons' 3 Functions
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