• School makes children learn to co-operate with other members of society besides friends and family, it is like a mini society.
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School acts as a bridge between the family and society, preparing children for their adult roles. It is a form of “secondary socialisation”
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• Advanced, industrial society requires a highly motivated, achievement-orientated workforce. By using the principle of differential reward for differential achievement, this value is instilled in a society.
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• Education is a mechanism for ensuring that the most able rise to the positions in society which are functionally most important for society. • Education has the function of “role allocation” – it allocates people to roles based on their abilities.
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. Links schools to the needs of the wider society and the economy.
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understand how the socialisation process continues beyond the family.
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armchair theorising”.
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Some pupils do not passively accept all they are taught and reject school values.
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. Does not investigate why different genders, social classes or ethnic groups achieve differently in education systems.