Education; Functionalists

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Social Solidarity - bind members of society together, this creates social unity and solidarity.
Durkheim
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Role allocation - social stratification is an effective role allocation and performance, best people for the job,
Davis and Moore
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Secondary socialisation and Meritocracy fundamental to society, passes on culture, secondary socialisation, creates universalistic values, provides training for future riles and allows for upwards social mobility.
Parsons
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Evaluation' argues that functionalist have an 'over-socialised' view of people as mere puppets of society. Functionalists wrongly imply that pupils accept all they're taught and never reject the schools values.
Dennis Wong
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Consumer Choice - removing funding from the school which is dependent on how many students they have. forces schools to be responsive to parental influence and attract 'customers' by improving their 'product'
Chubb and Moe
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Some people are naturally more talented than others. Favour an education system run on meritocratic principles of open competition, and one that serves the needs of the economy system doesn't provide this as it run by the state, 'one size fits all'
The New Right
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Evaluation - Argue that competition between schools benefits the middle class, who can use their cultural and economic capitol to gain access to more desirable schools.
Gerwirtz and Ball
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Role allocation - social stratification is an effective role allocation and performance, best people for the job,

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Davis and Moore

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Secondary socialisation and Meritocracy fundamental to society, passes on culture, secondary socialisation, creates universalistic values, provides training for future riles and allows for upwards social mobility.

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Evaluation' argues that functionalist have an 'over-socialised' view of people as mere puppets of society. Functionalists wrongly imply that pupils accept all they're taught and never reject the schools values.

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Consumer Choice - removing funding from the school which is dependent on how many students they have. forces schools to be responsive to parental influence and attract 'customers' by improving their 'product'

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