Role and Functions of the Education System

Question 1

A state of normlessness.

Answer 1

Anomie

Question 2

Agreement about what is right and wrong in a society.

Answer 2

Value Consensus

Question 3

The shared morals and beliefs of a society.

Answer 3

Collective Conscience

Question 4

Sense of belonging to part of something bigger.

Answer 4

Social Solidarity

Question 5

Institutions need to work together in order for society to function.

Answer 5

Organic Anaology

Question 6

Everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed, individuals efforts are achieved by their own efforts rather than through their ascribed status.

Answer 6

Meritocracy

Question 7

The status that you earn through hard work and ability.

Answer 7

Achieved Status

Question 8

The status that people are born with (class, gender, ethnicity).

Answer 8

Ascribed Status

Question 9

The informal aspects of society that children are taught in school like behaviour and respecting authority.

Answer 9

Hidden Curriculum

Question 10

Belives the two functions of education are:

1. Act as an agent of secondary socialisation to install a sense of belonging and to pass on culture.
2. Teach specialist skills for the workplace.

Answer 10

Durkheim

Question 11

Learning norms and values from institutions other than family.

Answer 11

Secondary Socialisation

Question 12

Values that everybody is judged by in society.

Answer 12

Universalistic Values

Question 13

Values specific to your family.

Answer 13

Particularistic Values

Question 14

‘strata’ why people are organised in society.

Answer 14

Stratification

Question 15

They believe that the education is a form of role allocation, based on a pupil’s ability.

Answer 15

Davis and Moore

Question 16

Believe that the role of education is to ‘bridge the gap’ between wider society.

Answer 16

Parsons

Question 17

Lack of awareness by the working class by their own interests (Marxism).

Answer 17

False Class Conciousness

Question 18

The owning class was also the ruling class because they own the means of production.

Answer 18

Ruling Class Ideology

Question 19

The working class are exploited by the ruling class.

Answer 19

Exploitation

Question 20

Like the land, factories, raw materials, technology and labour neccessary to produce society’s goods.

Answer 20

Means of Production

Question 21

The conflict between the ruling class having everything and the working class being exploited.

Answer 21

Class Conflict

Question 22

The main role of education is to maintain the unequal, capitalist society (structure).

Answer 22

Marxist Theory of Education

Question 23

The Ruling Class use force to control the working class and protect their power/position in society via police/courts/army etc.

Answer 23

Repressive State Apparatus

Question 24

Agencies of the state which serve to spread dominant ideology and justify the power of the dominant social class.

Answer 24

Ideological State Apparatus

Question 25

They argue that the working class are controlled by the ruling class in two ways:

1. Repressive state apparatus
2. Ideological state apparatus

Answer 25

Althusser

Question 26

Believe the main role of education is reproduce labour power, produce the next generation of workers.

Answer 26

Bowles and Gintis

Question 27

A system of social structures and practices, in which men govern, oppress and exploit women.

Answer 27

Patriarchy

Question 28

See the education system as transmitting patriarchal norms and values into the pupils.

Answer 28

Feminist view on Education