Education: functionalism and new right

Question 1

Structural consensus

Answer 1

The way society is organised, influences the behaviour of society

Question 2

Agent of secondary socialisation

Answer 2

Process of learning norms and values outside of the home

Question 3

Value consensus

Answer 3

Joint agreements of the values in society

Question 4

Functional prerequisite

Answer 4

Something essential of the vales in society

Question 5

Social solidarity

Answer 5

Interaction of people into society making people feel society is more important than the individuals

Question 6

Social cohesion

Answer 6

The ‘social glue’ that creates unity between members of society

Question 7

What does Durkheim argue about Specialist skills

Answer 7

Modern industrial economies require specialist skills, its schools jobs to teach them
eg: In 2014 computer science was made an EBACC subject

Question 8

Criticism on the functionalist view

Answer 8

-Tony blaire, aimed for 50% of students to go to university however individuals were unable to find jobs with their degrees leading to a lack of specialist workers
- Uk came 22nd / 65 countries in terms of reading showing the government don’t show enough interest in special skills

Question 9

What do Functionalist think created social solidarity

Answer 9

1) Education is an agent for secondary socialisation
2) It’s role is to create a value consensus
3)Schools create this functional perquisite by socialising the new generation into three shared values of society, to create social solidarity
4) Achiever by brining together its members into a common culture, creating a sense of togetherness and a unity between members of society

Question 10

How do schools teach social solidarity

Answer 10

Teach entirety of British history chronologically
Building, Resilience tolerance, citizenship, integration

Question 11

Criticisms of Functionalist view on building social solidarity

Answer 11

Denis Wrong argues functional have an ‘over-socialised’ view of human behaviour (functionalists theory treats people as ‘empty vessels’ or ‘mere puppets’

Ball, uses the term ‘little englishism’ to show how the curriculum focuses on white British cultures/glories (making it difficult to teach social solidarity and ethnic diverse school)

Question 12

Particularistic value

Answer 12

is how they raised in their family (the norms)

Question 13

universalistic values

Answer 13

How schools teach the same rules to everyone

Question 14

Is it important to teach universalistic values

Answer 14

yes, by teaching universalistic values in advanced industrial societies, status is achieved and everyone will have the same judgement

Question 15

Criticisms of functionalists view on ‘bridging’ particular values with universalistic value

Answer 15

Postmodernists criticise Durkheim’s assumption that all schools help to create shared values in society, because different schools have different values/ambitions, so they won’t all teach universalistic values

parson states universalistic values are taught through the hidden curriculum, but students have free will, and they reject these rules

Question 16

functionalists three education had 3 functions

Answer 16

1) Socalisation
2) Role allocation
3) Skills precision