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6. Which functionalist sociologist says that a student’s language (elaborate or restricted) determines how academically successful students will be?

  • Althusser
  • Willis
  • Bernstein
  • Parsons

7. Who was the social democrat sociologist who says the working class feel that the education system contravenes (breaks) the working-class culture it instead reinforces middle class culture?

  • Boliver and Swift
  • Illich
  • Ingram
  • Garrod

8. Who is the Marxist sociologist who says that Education provides ideological state apparatus to maintain capitalism?

  • Salter and Tapper
  • Althusser
  • Bowles and Gintis
  • Marx

9. Who is the Liberal sociologist Education who says that education should give children a broad knowledge of every subject instead of having more knowledge in some and less in others?

  • Dewey
  • Newman and Huxley
  • Chubb and Moe
  • Salter and Tapper

10. Which Marxist sociologist says that Education legitimises class inequality?

  • Marx
  • Durkheim
  • Murray
  • Willis

11. Who is the feminist sociologist who says that both patriarchy and the economy affect female disadvantage at school with expectations of their subordinate place in the workplace?

  • Hartmann
  • Oakley
  • Firestone
  • Friedman

12. Which Functionalist sociologist says that Education means that we have social solidarity?

  • Bernstein
  • Durkheim
  • Hargreaves
  • Parsons

13. Which new right sociologist says that education should provide social order of individual and local choice?

  • Salter and Tapper
  • Parsons
  • Chubb and Moe
  • Murray

14. Who is the Liberal sociologist who says that we shouldn't have rote learning (learning through repetition)?

  • Rist
  • Becker
  • Dewey
  • Newman and Huxley

15. Who is the feminist sociologist who says that both racism and sexism exist in the education system and have an impact on achievement?

  • Parsons
  • Benston
  • Bhavani
  • Oakley

16. Which functionalist sociologist says that the manifest functions (the primary function) is to ensure that students have the knowledge they need for when they are older?

  • Parsons
  • Durkheim
  • Merton
  • Bernstein

17. Who is the feminist sociologist that says that through socialisation, we learn what is expected on males and females and this affects subject choice?

  • Benston
  • Hartmann
  • Oakley
  • Friedman

18. Which new right sociologist proposed a voucher system under which parents would be given a voucher to pay for their children’s education?

  • Parsons
  • Salter and Tapper
  • Chubb and Moe
  • Becker

19. Who is the interactionist sociologist who says that students internalises the labels they're given they come to believe it?

  • Durkhiem
  • Rothensal and Jacobsen
  • Hargreaves et al
  • Rist

20. Which functionalist sociologist says that education acts as a bridge of socialisation?

  • Parsons
  • Merton
  • Durkheim
  • Willis