Functionalism In Education Flashcards
What did Durkheim say the two main functions of education were?
Social solidarity
Specialist skills
What is social solidarity?
Where individuals feel apart of a community
What are specialist skills?
Education teachers the skills needed for the social division of labour
What did parsons believe in?
Meritocracy
What type of standards does the school possess?
Universalistic
The same laws apply to everyone
Status is achieved
What did Davis And Moore believe in?
Role allocation
What is rôle allocation?
Schools perform the function of selecting and allocating pupils to their future work roles
Why do davis and Moore argue that inequality is necessary?
To ensure that the most important roles are filled out by the most talented people
Evaluation of Functionalist Perspective
- education system doesn’t provide specialist skills like Durkheim says
- equal opportunity in education doesn’t exist
- only transmits ruling class ideology
-myth of mediocrity
