4. The Role of Education

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Durkheim: social solidarity
Education transmits society's shared culture, binding people together & helping them to cooperate
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Durkheim: specialist skills
Education provides people with the skills needed to fulfil roles in specific occupations
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Parsons: Bridge Theory
School is a bridge between the family (paticularistic values & ascribed status) and wider society (universalistic values & meritocracy)
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Davis & Moore: role allocation
Social stratification grades people based on their merits so the most able people can be placed into the most functionally important & highly rewarded roles
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Chubb & Moe: The Voucher System
The state education system does not work. Instead, schools should have to compete for students & funding (marketisation)
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Althusser: The Ideological State Apparatus
The education system reproduces & legitimates class inequality by failing each generation of w/c students, whilst maintaining the illusion of meritocracy
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Bowles & Gintis: The Correspondence Principle
School mirrors work in a number of ways: hierarchy, alienation, extrinsic satisfaction, fragmentation & competition
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Bowles & Gintis: The Hidden Curriculum
Lessons that are learnt in school without actually being taught e.g. punctuality, hierarchy, alienation
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Willis: Learning to Labour
Observation of "the Lads", an anti-school counter-culture. The Lads rejected the m/c values of the school, meaning they were destined to enter w/c jobs.
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Education provides people with the skills needed to fulfil roles in specific occupations

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Social stratification grades people based on their merits so the most able people can be placed into the most functionally important & highly rewarded roles

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The state education system does not work. Instead, schools should have to compete for students & funding (marketisation)

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