Roles Of Education

Question 1

Durkheim socialization and social solidarity

Answer 1

The education system meets a functional pre-request
of society by passing on the cultural and values of
society. This is achieved hidden curriculum. s helps to build social solidarity

Question 2

Bridge between
family and society.
Parsons

Answer 2

schools provide a link between
the family and wider society which allows students to
move from the ascribed status and particularistic
values of the home to the meritocratic and
universalistic values of wider society

Question 3

Developing Human
Capital
Schultz

Answer 3

investment in education benefits the
wider economy. Education can provide properly
trained, qualified and flexible workforce

Question 4

Role Allocation
Davis and Moore

Answer 4

education systems provides a means to selecting
and sifting people into the social hierarchy

Question 5

New Right View of Education

Answer 5

state takes
too much of a role and the free market policies (marketisation)
would raise standards.
Schools should compete with one another and parents and
pupils should be seen as consumers.
Chubb and Moe - Education Vouchers and Parentocracy.

Question 6

Bowles and Gintis

Answer 6

Correspondence principal School processes mirror the
world of work
Myth of MeritocracyEducation claims to be
meritocratic but schools
discriminate in favour of the
middle class

Question 7

Althusser

Answer 7

Ideological State
Apparatus means a
Social institution whose
main role is to pass on
the dominate ideology
of the Ruling class

Question 8

Evaluation Giroux – Neo Marxism

Answer 8

Existence of anti-school
subcultures, truancy and
exclusion suggest both
the hidden curriculum
and correspondence
principal have failed.

Question 9

Halsey Floud and Martin Eval

Answer 9

Marxists exaggerate the effect
the education has on
working class
achievement.
They point out that govt
policies such as
comprehensivisation
have improved the
chances of the working
class.

Question 10

Chubb and Moe NR EVAL

Answer 10

Marxists fail to see how education has
failed all social groupsnot just the working class.
They believe that education has failed to
equip all students with
the skills needed to be
successful in the global
market place.

Question 11

Postmodernism Eval

Answer 11

Morrow and Torres claim
the students create their
own identities rather
than being constrained
by traditional structures
like class