Topic 2- Functions Of The Education System

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Stresses that education was an important agency of secondary socialisation
Durkheim
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There's a clear link between skills developed in education and employment
Vocationalism
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Schools 'sort and sift' students according to ability and then allocate roles
Talcott Parsons
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Meritocracy merely reinforces the concept of class inequality in society
Marxists
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Schools form part of an 'ideological state apparatus' for teaching the ideas of the ruling class
Althusser
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There's a clear link between skills developed in education and employment

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Vocationalism

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Schools 'sort and sift' students according to ability and then allocate roles

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Meritocracy merely reinforces the concept of class inequality in society

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Schools form part of an 'ideological state apparatus' for teaching the ideas of the ruling class

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