Role Of Education- Functionalist Flashcards
Durkheim
social solidarity: idea that togetherness/agreement/consensus occurs over testing skills and division based on these skills. Education system encourages this as raises standards to make us an economically competitive nation. Education helps divide people based on those skills via standardised testing as it helps place people into jobs (specialized division of labour)
Parsons
education provides a bridge from primary to secondary socialisation and the bridge from particularistic values (specific/personal) t universalistic values (values of society taught via secondary socialisation/value consensus) which helps prep us for work. Socialisation is the process by which we learn Norms and values. Education is a form of secondary socialisation: students learn the formal curriculum as well as develop norms values and morals in the hidden curriculum (such as rules, respect, values, timekeeping)
Davis and moore
suggest society and education are meritocratic (students are rewarded if they work hard) say that education helps to sift and sort students as a form of role allocation based on skills and innate abilities. Education should foster students skills to place the, perfectly in the job market - means certain jobs have higher rewards for functionally important roles.
