Each part of society, including its institutions, perform functions that help to maintain society as a whole. It transmits a shared culture and aims for value consensus by teaching common history.
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What is Durkheim's social solidarity?
This is the idea that all individuals must feel apart of a whole. This is created by transmitting society's culture (Beliefs & values). School also acts as a 'society in miniature'
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What does Parsons suggest?
Education acts as a 'focal socialising agency' and is a bridge between the home and society as a whole. It does this by promoting meritocracy and achieving status rather than ascribed status.
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What is meant by Durkheim's specialist skills?
Education teaches specialist skills as society requires a complex division of labour for work, e.g. IT.
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What do Davis & Moore suggest?
Role allocation occurs, education selects and allocates pupils to their future work roles based on ability. Inequality is necessary so the most important job roles are filled by the most able. It is a proving ground of ability and 'sifts and sorts' by abi
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How do the New Right view education?
The state cannot meet the needs of the people and so they favour the marketisation of education. They also believe that some people are more talented than others.
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What do Chubb & Moe suggest?
The US education system has failed because it fails to promote equal opportunity and to teach skills for work. They favour a voucher system in which families pay for an education of their choice. This makes schools more responsive to the parents' needs.
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How do Marxists see education?
Education benefits the ruling class by preparing the wc to work alienated work roles. It is based on class division and capitalist exploitation. This creates a potential for a revolution. However it continues because the ruling class control the state. In
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What does Althusser suggest?
School is an ideological state apparatus, it controls values & beliefs. It has 2 functions;
-Reproduction
-Legitimisation
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What do Bowles & Gintis suggest about Meritocracy?
Meritocracy is a myth to disguise the exploitation. Education acts as a 'myth making machine' to prevent a revolution and keep the wc under a false class consciousness.
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What does Willis' study suggest?
He studied a group of wc boys. He found that by them resisting the school ideology, their counter culture ensures that they are destined for unskilled work. This backs up the idea of capitalism.
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What do Bowles & Gintis suggest?
They argue capitalism requires a workforce to work alienated jobs. Education reproduces a obedient workforce. It is the 'long shadow of work', it mirrors the workplace through the correspondence principle which operates through the hidden curriculum.
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What do Neoliberalism say about education?
The state should impose a framework and a curriculum.
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What do Post-modernists say about education?
Education has become more diverse and responsive to the needs of individuals. The correspondence principle doesn't exist as it promotes diversity not inequality.
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What is the halo effect?
The well behaved were assumed to be smart
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What do Gillborn & Youdell suggest?
Labelling is linked to league tables due to the educational triage.
-Those who will pass
-Borderline C/D
Hopeless cases
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What is Durkheim's social solidarity?
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This is the idea that all individuals must feel apart of a whole. This is created by transmitting society's culture (Beliefs & values). School also acts as a 'society in miniature'
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