Education- Sociologist Views

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Durkheim
Social solidarity is essential for society to survive and the education system binds us all together through the teaching of history
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Parsons
Education system is a key element of secondary socialisation. It develops on value consensus and it is done through promoting individual achievement
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Davos and Moore
Education is good for role allocation as they perform the function of selecting and allocating pupils to their future work roles
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Blaue and Duncan
A modern economy depends for its prosperity on using its human capital. Meritocracy enables each person to be allocated to the job best suited to their abilities
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Althuser
The education system is a form of ideological control, it's transmitting the idea that capitalism is responsible
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Bowles and Gintis
Correspondence Theory- close correspondence between the school and work, this is social reproduction
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Willis
Learning to Labour- for young working class boys school is good for a laugh, they're just there to mess around because they know they're going to get a low skilled job
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Rikowski
Business takes over the school and education becomes privatised, this produces a profit
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