Functions Of Education

Question 1

Functionalism

Answer 1

Schools create social cohesion and make effective use of human resource for the good of all

Question 2

Emile Durkheim

Answer 2

Main purpose of education was to socialise children into society’s norms and values. (Value consensus)

Question 3

Talcott Parsons

Answer 3

Education is a useful bridge between the home and work. Schools socialise children into norms of wider society, but in a caring way

Question 4

Marxism

Answer 4

Schools divide society by reinforcing inequalities. Teaching children values of capitalism (social control, hegemony)

Question 5

Bowles and Gintis

Answer 5

Working class school students were discouraged from thinking for themselves occupied with dull repetitive tasks and rewarded for being obedient

Question 6

Feminism

Answer 6

To maintain and teach the patriarchy