Role of Education

Question 1

Functionalist Durkheim

Answer 1

Social solidarity
Specialist skills

Question 2

Functionalist Parsons

Answer 2

Schools are meritocratic
Agent of socialisation

Question 3

Functionalist Davis and Moore

Answer 3

Role selection

Question 4

Marxist Althusser

Answer 4

Ideological state apparatus functions, reproduction of ineqaulity
Legitimation, convince people failure is their fault

Question 5

Marxist Bowles and Gintis

Answer 5

Myth of meritocracy
Hidden Curriculum

Question 6

Neo-Marxist Willis

Answer 6

Ruling class ideology
Attemps to indoctrinate

Question 7

Liberal Feminism

Answer 7

Steady improvement in girls experience

Question 8

Radical Feminism

Answer 8

Maintains gender ineqaulity
Gendered langauge, textbooks and stereotypes

Question 9

New Right

Answer 9

Schools should be centred around compeition and choice, by meeting that needs of marketisation

Question 10

New Right Chubb and Moe

Answer 10

State education fails to create equal opportunity due to not responding to pupils needs
Failing schools are controlled by the state
Private schools deliver a high quality education because they are answerable to paying consumers