Topic 5 - Role Of Education

Question 1

Parsons ( functionalist )

Answer 1

Meritocratic education

Question 2

Davis and Moore ( functionalist )

Answer 2

Role allocation : education helps match the ability of the Individuals and the job they are best suited to

Question 3

Chubb and Moe ( new right )

Answer 3

Each family should have a voucher for they to pick the school for their children

Question 4

Althusser ( Marxist )

Answer 4

Education is an ideological apparatus which produces and legitimises inequality ( ISA &RSA)

Question 5

Durkheim ( functionalist )

Answer 5

Social solidarity - education teaches a sense of commitment

Question 6

Bowles and gintis ( Marxist )

Answer 6

Correspondence principle - school uses a hidden curriculum to teach students to accept hierarchy and competition - this is done through the myth of meritocracy

Question 7

Willis ( Marxist )

Answer 7

Study - working class boys who rejected school values and and didn’t accept myth of meritocracy failed anyway