sociological theories

Question 1

what is the hidden curriculum?

Answer 1

the messages that school transmit to students without directly teaching them or spelling them out

Question 2

what are examples of the hidden curriculum?

Answer 2

reinforcing gender roles- pe e.g girls netball and boys rugby
encourages children to accept capitalist views- e.g respect,how to dress & hierarchy

Question 3

what do functionalist believe that education does?

Answer 3

1) Creating social solidarity
2. Teaching skills necessary for work
3. Secondary socialisation
4. Role Allocation and meritocracy

Question 4

what is social solidarity?

Answer 4

the unity of beliefs and values

Question 5

how do schools provide social solidarity?

Answer 5

• schools teaching same subjects which give shared sense of identity
• education gives students same experiences so they have equal opportunities when it comes to getting jobs

Question 6

how did Durkheim argue that schools provide specialist skills needed for the workplace?

Answer 6

• education plays a key role in maintaining the countries labour force and developing human resources
• britain has a specialised division of labour where people have specialised jobs with specific skills and knowledge and the dedication system allows these skills to be taught

Question 7

what did talcott parsons argue about secondary socialisation?

Answer 7

• education acts as the bridge between the family and the workplace,enabling students to adapt from the patriculasti status of the family to the universalistic of work
• all the things taught lead to value consensus

Question 8

what is argued about role allocation?

Answer 8

schools are meritocratic

• involes the sifting of students through a range of processes to determine which are most able,allowing them to be appropriately allocated in society
• he education system is meritocratic which enables the education system is fair and everyone has an equal chance of success and students don’t regard their position in society as unequal

Question 9

what do marxists believe about the education system ?

Answer 9

• serves to reproduce capitalism and transmits the ideas of the ruling class
• is a control device
• plays a key role in passing on a ‘false picture of society’

Question 10

what did Althusser argue education had done?

Answer 10

replaced religion as it now replaces the role that it used to play in persuading people to accept their position in life

Question 11

what is the ideological state apparatus?

Answer 11

this is that schools are an institution that transmits and supports the beliefs and idea of the ruling class

Question 12

what is the correspondence principle?

Answer 12

the theory that theres a close correspondence between the education and the workplace

Question 13

how is the correspondence theory argues to prepare people for future roles in society?

Answer 13

prepares people for their future roles within the functionalist society and education helps to disguise fro m the workforce that they are exploited and legitimises social inequality

Question 14

what does bourdieu argue about schools?(marxist)

Answer 14

middle class institutions run by middle class people where only middle class students are likely to succeed 
-working class violence is due to 'symbolic violence'