criticisms of the functionalist perspective Flashcards
multicultural Britain
(durkheim)
-Durkheim assumes society has a single and dominant shared culture that can be passed on by the education system
-countries such as Britain =multicultural so not a single culture for schools to pass on
class inequality
(marxists)
-Marxists argue education system serves interest of ruling class than society as a whole
competition vs solidarity
(Hargreaves)
-Hargreaves(1982) argues that schools emphasise individual competiiton through the exam system rather than working together
achieved or ascribed?
-can be argued intelligence has little effect upon educational achievement it can be argued people not graded by ability but class
=private schools achieve better than state schools
-content creators go against role allocation
ignoring counter/anti-school subculture
(interactionalists Wrong(1961)
argues that functionalists have an ‘over-socialised view’ of people as mere puppets of society
-functionalists wrongfully imply that pupils passively accept all they are taught and never reject school’s values- disproved through antischool subculture examined by paul willis