education + sociologists

Question 1

4 key areas of Functionalism and sociologists

Answer 1

1. social solidarity - durkeim
2. specialist skills and knowledge - durkheim
3. bridge between home and society - parsons
4. meritocracy and role allocation - davis and moore

Question 2

who argued education acts as focal socialising agency?

Answer 2

Talcott Parsons

Question 3

4 key ares of Marxism and sociologists

Answer 3

1. Ideological State Apparatus - althusser
2. education creates a passive workforce - bowles and gintis
3. Myth of meritocracy - bowles and gintis
4. Neo-Marxism - learning to labour - willis

Question 4

who argued the working class are ‘duped’ into accepting their educational failures and limited social mobility

Answer 4

Pierre Bourdieu

Question 5

what is symbolic violence?

Answer 5

working class lacks cultural capital to succeed

Question 6

who argued the purpose of education is to reproduce labour power?

Answer 6

Bowles & Gintis

Question 7

what is the correspondence principle?

Answer 7

there’s a correspondence between school relationships and structures at work that teaches pupils norms and values preparing them to be exploited

Question 8

who argued education helped to create meritocratic and socially mobile society?

Answer 8

Peter Saunders (New Right)

Question 9

any 3 correspondence principles

Answer 9

• authority hierarchy - hierarchy at work
• school rules, detentions - conformity to society’s laws
• competitions, sports - competing for jobs
• respect for teachers - respect for suthorities
• punctuality - time-keeping at work
• boring schoolwork - boring job
• lack of control over the subjects - lack of power at work
• grading by ability - difference in pay

Question 10

which functionalists argued society is meritocratic?

Answer 10

Davis & Moore

Question 11

Paul Willis’s study (n of boys)

Answer 11

learning to labour (12)

Question 12

4 key areas of New Right

Answer 12

1. Marketisation
2. Parentocracy
3. Consumer choice
4. Meritocracy

Question 13

4 advantages of free market system

Answer 13

1. Individual freedom
2. Efficiency
3. Innovation
4. Economic growth

Question 14

New Right policies (marketisation)

Answer 14

• League tables (GCSEs A-levels)
• National curriculum
• Ofsted
• Formula funding
• open enrolment

Question 15

who argues parentocracy tends to favour middle class and why

Answer 15

Stephen Ball. They can afford to move to areas with better state education

Question 16

what did Chubb and Moe do?

Answer 16

compared the achievemnts of low income students.
- eduaction is not meritocratic
- poor pupils do 5% better in private schools
- introduced a voucher system

Question 17

4 key areas of postmodernism

Answer 17

1. consumer based society
2. rise in cultural diversity and hybridity
3. fragmented society
4. hyperreal society

Question 18

the butler act

Answer 18

• 1944
• all children took 11+
• grammar schools
• technical schools
• secondary modern schools

Question 19

comprehensive system

Answer 19

• 1965
• schools are controlled by local education authorities LEAs
• streaming

Question 20

the new right government’s education act

Answer 20

• 1988
• league tables
• national curriculum
• ofsted
• formula funding
• open enrolment

Question 21

who argued media creates hyperreality?

Answer 21

baudrillard

Question 22

who argued education creates toxic childhood?

Answer 22

sue palmer

Question 23

who argues functionalism implies that pupils passively accept society’s values istead of actively creating or rejecting them

Answer 23

Dennis Wrong