Role And Function Of Education

Question 1

Emile Durkheim (1903)

Answer 1

-Functionalist - consensus theory
-argued education serves the need of society by helping develop specialist skills and create social solidarity
- emphasised the importance of moral education which is essential for transmission of culture role allocation and social placement

Question 2

Talcott Parsons (1961)

Answer 2

-Functionalist - consensus theory
-family = primary socialisation, education = secondary socialisation
-school is based on meritocratic principles, people are rewarded for effort and talent.
- schools act as a bridge between family and wider society

Question 3

Davis and Moore (1945)

Answer 3

-Functionalist - consensus theory
-social stratification is essential as it facilitates meritocracy.
- role allocation in schools was for teachers to push pupils towards the job they think is best for them

Question 4

Louis Althusser (1970)

Answer 4

-Marxist - conflict theory
-education system is an ideological state apparatus that aims to maintain social class inequality on the behalf of the bourgeoise or capitalist class

Question 5

Bowles and Gintis (1976)

Answer 5

• marxist - conflict theory
• education corresponds with work in order to prepare WC children for their future as manual workers
  -school replicates the workplace through the hidden curriculum
• the correspondence principle

Question 6

Paolo friere (1970)

Answer 6

-marxist - conflict theory
-both the bourgeoise and the proletariat are diminished in their humanity when their relationship is characterised by oppressive dynamics