Functionalism and Education. (Simpler)

Functionalism is a macro perspective. This means the theory looks at large scale societal processes. Functionalism considers the functions that education performs for society assuming that schools serve a positive societal need.

Education is seen as a vital part of the process of socialisation. Societies need specialist institutions for differentiating people and allocating them to specific areas.

Functionalism states that two basic functions of education are:

- General socialisation for the population into…