Paper 3 Section B: 1. What is the role of education in society?

Question 1

Theoretical explanations of the
relationship between education
and work:
• functionalism
• Marxism
• New Right
consider work-based training and
vocationalism post-1988 as well as the
traditional theoretical explanations of the
relationship between education and work.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Which SOCIOLOGICAL theories look at explaining the role / function of education in OCR? (hint : there’s 4)

Answer 2

• Functionalism (structual & consensus theory)
• Traditional Marxism / Neo Marxism (stuructual & conflict theory)
• Feminism (structual & conflict theory)
• Social Action / Interactionalism (action thoery & symbolic interactionalism)

Question 3

Which POLITICAL theories are useful for discussing education? (hint : there’s 3)

Answer 3

• New Right
• Social Democratic
• Liberal

Question 4

What was education like between the MODERN era (1700’s-1950’s)? What theories believe this?

Answer 4

According to FUNCTIONALISTS & MARXISTS

• Education system was expanding.
• The government was playing more of a role in people’s lives.
• Society was becoming more industrialised and was moving away from being based on agriculture.

Question 5

What was education like between the LATE MODERN era (1970’S-?)? What theories believe this?

Answer 5

According to FEMINISM and SOCIAL ACTION:

• A huge amount of social changes occur like the second wave of feminism and the country becoming less religious.
• Education is expanding and more people are starting to attend university.

Question 6

What was education like between the POSTMODERN era (1980’S-?)? What theories believe this(duh)?

Answer 6

According to POSTMODERNISTS

• There’s greater migration and a spread of ideas.
• Lots of social changes and postmodernists argue that traditional theories are no longer useful for explaining these changes.

Question 7

What are 2 points Durkheim believes are a functionalist education? (fix up question)

Answer 7

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