Education

Question 1

Three interrelated factors are salient in the growth of education:

Answer 1

1. Overall expansion of educational requirements and opportunities
2. Increasing levels of educational attainment
3. Recent emphasis on the selection of highly-educated immigrants

Question 2

Emile Durkheim (1922):

Answer 2

[education is] the means by which society perpetually recreates the conditions of its very existence

Question 3

Talcott Parsons (1959)

Answer 3

identified 2 central functions of schools:

1. selection (allocating individuals ->jobs)
2. socialization (providing knowledge required)

Question 4

meritocratic

Answer 4

a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit

Question 4

meritocratic

Answer 4

a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit