Perspectives on Education
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- Functionalism
- Durkheim
- Social solidarity - community spirit, feeling like one is a part of a larger system
- Specialist skills - teaching knowledge and skills required for specialised work in the future
- Parsons
- Meritocracy - earning merits (achieving in school) allows an individual to be socially mobile and increase their status. Everyone in a meritocracy has an equal chance at social mobility
- Davis and Moore
- Role allocation - the most important jobs in society (eg doctors, lawyers) are filled by the most suitable and intelligent individual
- inequality is functionally necessary to ensure this
- Durkheim
- Marxism
- Althusser - ideological state apparatus
- Repressive state apparatus - bourgeois maintain power through force
- ideological state apparatus - bourgeois maintain power through controlling the beliefs and thoughts of the society
- Bowles and Gintis
- schools reward pupils for compliance and other traits seen as good in the world of work
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- Althusser - ideological state apparatus
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