The role of education - Functionalists and the New Right
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- Created on: 07-05-14 18:08
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- The role of education, Functionalists and New Right
- Functionalists
- Durkheim: solidarity and skills
- Social solidarity
- School transmits the societies culture, bot its shared beliefs and values. For example teaching colonial history will create a sense of pride for your own country
- School acts as a miniature society of what you'll face outside, post-education as we have a hierarchal structure
- Specialist skills
- Education supplies children with specialist skills that they can apply to the work place in the future
- Social solidarity
- Parsons: Meritocracy
- School judges us on the same universalistic and impersonal standards, everyone is judged against the same criteria
- So we have the same gendered rules against us in school as in the greater society
- It prepares us for life outside school as we are taught that individuals achieve rewards through their own effort and ability
- School judges us on the same universalistic and impersonal standards, everyone is judged against the same criteria
- Evaluation
- Marxists feel that school doesn't transmit the societies culture but brainwashes us with capitalist ideology
- The New Right argue that the state system is inadequate in preparing children for society because it does not reward competition or choice
- Durkheim: solidarity and skills
- New Right
- Chubb and Moe: Consumer choice
- Disadvantaged groups such as ethnic groups, lower classes and religious minorities have been badly served by the schooling system, disadvantaging them
- State education is inefficient because it fails to produce pupils with the skills needed for the wider society
- Private schools deliver higher quality of education because unlike state schools they are paid for so have more pressure point onto them from parents
- Chubb and Moe: Consumer choice
- Functionalists
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