PAPER 1 (Role of education)

Question 1

Meritocracy

Answer 1

IQ + effort = success
The students who do well at school are clever & hardworking.
Everyone is given an equal opportunity and individuals achieve rewards through their own effort and ability.
Parsons

Question 2

Role allocation

Answer 2

School allocates you roles based on your future work roles.

Question 3

Marketisation

Answer 3

Schools work like businesses.

Question 4

Neoliberalism

Answer 4

The state should not provide services such as education, health or welfare, and the state should not restrict what people spend their money on.
They support the idea that there should be a free market.

Question 5

Academies:

Answer 5

Academies are state-funded schools that are funded directly by the government rather than by the local education authority.
They allow teachers more control what they teach and how.

Question 6

Free schools:

Answer 6

Set up by parents, businesses or charities & receive state funding but have much more freedom.

Question 7

Extrinsic satisfaction:

Answer 7

Only doing something for rewards not because you enjoy it.