3ED

Question 1

What did Durkheim believe about education?

Answer 1

• Teaches a collective conscience
• The teaching of history provides links between an individual and society, children will start to see themselves as part of a wider social group
• Education teaches children necessary skills for labour in the future

Question 2

What does Parsons believe about education?

Answer 2

• School acts as a bridge between family society
• Prepares for their adult roles
• A form of secondary socialisation
• Eases the transform between particularistic norms and scribes status of the family to universalistic norms and achieved status of wider society

Question 3

What do Davis and Moore believe about education?

Answer 3

• Education is a mechanism to ensure that the most able student get the best jobs
• Education uses role allocation

Question 4

Positives of the functionalist view of education

Answer 4

• Links schools to the needs of wider society and the economy
• Helps is to understand how the socialisation process continues beyond the family

Question 5

Negatives of the functionalist view of education

Answer 5

• Assumes education is meritocratic. Evidence suggests that background does play a part in educational achievement
• Durkheim and Parsons use armchair theorising
• Does not investigate why different genders, social classes or ethnic groups achieve differently education systems