The Role of Education Quiz

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What type of approach is functionalism?
Consensus
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What does Social Solidarity mean?
Individuals must feel themselves to be part of a single body or community.
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What does 'teaching specialist skills' mean?
Education teaches specialist knowledge and skills that individuals need to play their part in the social division of labour.
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What does Parsons say about the education system?
The school bridges the gap between the home and wider society.
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What do Blau and Duncan say about the modern economy?
It depends for is prosperity on using is workers' skills.
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What does Social Solidarity mean?

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Individuals must feel themselves to be part of a single body or community.

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What does 'teaching specialist skills' mean?

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What does Parsons say about the education system?

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What do Blau and Duncan say about the modern economy?

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