Role and Functions of the Education System Flashcards
A state of normlessness.
Anomie
Agreement about what is right and wrong in a society.
Value Consensus
The shared morals and beliefs of a society.
Collective Conscience
Sense of belonging to part of something bigger.
Social Solidarity
Institutions need to work together in order for society to function.
Organic Anaology
Everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed, individuals efforts are achieved by their own efforts rather than through their ascribed status.
Meritocracy
The status that you earn through hard work and ability.
Achieved Status
The status that people are born with (class, gender, ethnicity).
Ascribed Status
The informal aspects of society that children are taught in school like behaviour and respecting authority.
Hidden Curriculum
Belives the two functions of education are:
- Act as an agent of secondary socialisation to install a sense of belonging and to pass on culture.
- Teach specialist skills for the workplace.
Durkheim
Learning norms and values from institutions other than family.
Secondary Socialisation
Values that everybody is judged by in society.
Universalistic Values
Values specific to your family.
Particularistic Values
‘strata’ why people are organised in society.
Stratification
They believe that the education is a form of role allocation, based on a pupil’s ability.
Davis and Moore
Believe that the role of education is to ‘bridge the gap’ between wider society.
Parsons
Lack of awareness by the working class by their own interests (Marxism).
False Class Conciousness
The owning class was also the ruling class because they own the means of production.
Ruling Class Ideology
The working class are exploited by the ruling class.
Exploitation
Like the land, factories, raw materials, technology and labour neccessary to produce society’s goods.
Means of Production
The conflict between the ruling class having everything and the working class being exploited.
Class Conflict
The main role of education is to maintain the unequal, capitalist society (structure).
Marxist Theory of Education
The Ruling Class use force to control the working class and protect their power/position in society via police/courts/army etc.
Repressive State Apparatus
Agencies of the state which serve to spread dominant ideology and justify the power of the dominant social class.
Ideological State Apparatus
