Functionalist view of education evaluation (AO3)

Question 1

Wolf review of vocational education (2011)

Answer 1

Evaluating Durkheim :
- High school apprenticeship are rare and up to a third of 16-19 year olds are in courses that do not lead to higher education or good jobs

Question 2

Wrong (1961)

Answer 2

• Functionalists have an “over-socialised view” of people as mere puppets of society
• functionalists wrongly imply that pupils passively accept all they are taught and never reject school values

Question 3

New right

Answer 3

Argues that state education system does not prepare people for work

Question 4

Marxist

Answer 4

Schools do not teach social solidarity but the ideology of the ruling class