Role Of Education Sociologists

Question 1

Durkheim

Answer 1

Education transmits shared values of society and simultaneously teaching the specialised skills for an economy based on specialised division of labour

Question 2

Parsons

Answer 2

School is a bridge between work and the family

- schools encourage specialised division labour

Question 3

Davis and Moore

Answer 3

Role allocation

• school sorts people into roles into society
• inequality because all roles have to be filled

Question 4

Chubb and moe

Answer 4

Private schools are better as they are answering to paying customers
- state education doesn’t provide students with enough skills for the economy

Question 5

Althusser

Answer 5

Education is part of the ideological state apparatus

- leads to transmission of capitalist values and ideology

Question 6

Bowles and Gintis

Answer 6

Correspondence principle/ hidden curriculum - education prepares you for the exploitation and hierarchy in the work place

Question 7

Willis

Answer 7

Research into anti school subcultures - boys accept their position in school - teach them to accept mundane work life so muck around