Functionalism and Marxism

Question 1

Role allocation- that inequality is necessary to ensure that the most important roles are filled by the most talented people
-society depends on its workers and skills

Answer 1

Davis and Moore

Question 2

Solidarity and specialist skills
social solidarity- argues that society needs a sense of solidarity to feel like a community or people would behave selfishly - education does this by transmitting values and beliefs
specialist skills- industrial economies has a complex division of labour meaning different skills r needed - argues education teaches individuals the knowledge and skills (acts as society miniature)

Answer 2

Durkheim

Question 3

Meritocracy- where everyone is given equal opportunities - sees the school as a bridge between family and wider society - school teaches that in wider society you are judged on universalistic standards and that achievement is earned on the basis of merit or worth

Answer 3

Parsons

Question 4

Myth of meritocracy - doesn’t exists depends on family and class background - serves to justify and privileges of the higher class

Answer 4

Bowles and Gintis (MARXISM)

Question 5

In their view the role of education is to reproduce an obedient workforce that will accept inequality as inevitable

Answer 5

Bowles and Gintis

Question 6

The correspondence principle and hidden curriculum- argue that there are close parallels between schooling and work in capitalist society

Answer 6

Bowles and Gintis

Question 7

The ideological state apparatus (controlling people’s values and ideas, religion media) and the Repressive state apparatus (threat, police)

Answer 7

Althusser

Question 8

Education is an important ISA that:
-reproduces class inequalities by transmitting from gen to gen
-education legitimates class inequality by providing ideologies that disguise its true cause- people less likely to overthrow capitalism

Answer 8

Althusser

Question 9

The lads counter culture - resistance still reproduces class inequalities

Answer 9

Willis