Education Flashcards
What view is functionalism based off
Functionalism is based on the view that society is a system of interdependent parts held together by a shared culture or VALUE CONSENSUS. Durkheim called this value consensus the COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUS. It represents the agreement amongst society’s members about what values are important. Each part of society has a family, an economy or education system performs functions that help to maintain society as a whole
What is the education system in the eyes of durkheim
It is a bother vital organ in his organic analogy model. Without education society would cease to function
What does Durkheim believe the education System created
Social solidarity by socialising children into the norms and values of society (teaching them the value consensusi
How does school create social solidarity by
Children must learn self restraint instead of following their own impulses children must fit in with patterns of behaviour by others and accept discipline imposed by the school
How do schools teach specialist skills
Schools also prepare pupils for life in wider society. For example both in school and at work we have to cooperate with people, we have to interact in different ways and allow rules.
School now also teach a wider range of qualifications such as NVQs and vocational qualifications e.g. (T levels) that have both written and practical elements, as well as work experience opportunities.
What are two criticisms of durkheim
Marxists would criticise this concept as they believe that education is there to uphold captialism by allowing the bourgeoisie to succeed and keeping the workers poorly educated and in low paid jobs
It has been suggested that Durkheim’s theory is no longer relevant in our multi cultural society l. His theory of education promoting social solidarity doesn’t highlight how faith in schools teaches the values of a specific religion rather than the values of a whole society
What are the four ways in which the education system make solidarity
Cooperative school projects in the classroom
School plays
school camps
Interschool sports
What do Davis and Moore believe
That education is: “proving ground for ability and hence the selective agency for placing people in different statuses according to according to their capabilities”
What do Davis and moor believe must happen for society to operate
All roles must be filled and they need to be filled by the most able
what is sifting and sorting and differential awards
society needs to offer incentives to hose best able to fill positions that require making a sacrifice, society the n offers differential rewards, on which the hardest or skill level determines pay
what does parsons believe in
school is a key socialising agency in society.
school acts as a bridge between family and wider society
we need this bridge in place because families and society operate on different sets of principles and to cope in wider society children need to learn how to manage in the wider world
who believes in the different standards
parson
what are all the key terms for Marxist ideology on education
false class consciousness, cultural capital, correspondence principle, capitalism, external rewards, hegemony, superstructure, ideological state apparatus, acceptance of hierarchy, subservient workforce, hidden curriculum
what are all the keywords for functionalism in education
social solidarity, particularistic, universalistic, meritocratic, consensus, hidden curriculum, division of labour, achieved, ascribed, collective conscience
what are the two different standards parson believes in
particularistic standards and universal standards
what is social solidarity
a social and collective experience and togetherness, e.g. from the national curriculum
what is meritocratic
the belief that things are equal due to the higher the achievement the higher the reward, though Marxists disagree
what is hidden curriculum
the unwritten rules, values and normative patterns of behaviour which students are expected to conform to and learn while in school.
