SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE ROLES OF EDUCATION

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Serving the Needs of the Economy

To teach the knowledge and skills that future workers will need in a competative global economy.

  • Functionalist

Functionalists believe that schools adequatly teach the skills needed for the modern work place.

  • Marxists

Marxists believe that schools reinforce the class system by teaching middle class children the skills needed for low paying jobs and middle class children the skills needed for high paying jobs.

  • Feminism

Feminists belive that schools reinforce patriarchy by teaching women the skills needed for low paying jobs and for unpaid work in the home.

  • Anti-Racist

Anti-Racists belive that school reinforces the power of the ethnic majority by teaching minorities the skills needed for low paying jobs and ethnic majorities the skills needed for high paying jobs.

Selection

Allocating people to jobs based on their individual abilities and results

  • Functionalist

Functionalists see the system as a 'sieve' which grades students according to ability and places them in the most appropriate roles in society.

  • Marxists

Marxists do not believe education provides equal oppourtunities for all. they beliveve middle class benefit the most and receive the most oppourtunities.

  • Feminists

They belive that schools provide different oppourtunities based on gender, that you are pushed into studying particular…

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