Role of education

Question 1

What is the functionalist view of education?

Answer 1

That education provides necessary functions, norms and values to society

Question 2

What is the New right View of education?

Answer 2

That schools should suit the consumer

Question 3

What is the Marxist view of education

Answer 3

That education benefits capitalism and sets the working class up to fail

Question 4

What is the Feminist View of education?

Answer 4

Rejects the education system and view it as being responsible for producing gender inequalities

Question 5

What Does Durkheim say the two functions of education Are?

Answer 5

Creating social solidarity & providing Specialist skills for social workforce. School acts as a society in miniature

Question 6

What is Parsons Theory on education?

Answer 6

That schools are meritocratic and all pupils have an equal chant to succeed.

School is an agent of socialization acting as a bridge between family and wider society

Question 7

What do Blau & Duncan say?

Answer 7

a modern economy depends on prosperity from its human capital and a meritocratic system does this best (Supports Parsons, Davis & Moore)

Question 8

What do Davis & Moore argue?

Answer 8

That schools perform the function of selecting and allocating pupils to their future work roles

Question 9

What is the critisims of Durkheim

Answer 9

The wolf review claiming schools don’t teach specialised skills correctly

Question 10

What is Tumins Criticism of Davis & Moore

Answer 10

That they put forward a circular argument

Question 11

What is Dennis Wrongs Criticism

Answer 11

that functionalists have an over socialised view of people as puppets of society

Question 12

What does Althusser identify as the two functions of education

Answer 12

The legitimization and reproduction of class inequality

Question 13

What do Bowles & Gintis critisisze

Answer 13

That meritocracy does not exist and the main factor of educational achievement is class background

Question 14

What do Bowles & Gintis Argue?

Answer 14

That school creates the new generation of workers through the hidden curriculum

Question 15

What does willis Argue?

Answer 15

That Pupils can see through the ruling class ideology and reject it

Question 16

What does Cohen argue?

Answer 16

That youth training schemes serve capitalism by teaching young workers not genuine skills but the attitudes and values needed in a subordinate labour force

Question 17

What does Brown Et al Argue?

Answer 17

That work now requires teamwork rather than obedience and looking up to hierarchy

Question 18

What is Reynolds’s critisim?

Answer 18

That education requires critical thinking and the system shouldn’t create uncritical workers

Question 19

What is the critisim of the hidden curriculum?

Answer 19

That it is ourdated and USA based

Question 20

What do Morrow & Torres Both argue?

Answer 20

That marxists take a class first approach that sees class as the key inequality ignoring the others

Question 21

What is the Hidden curriculum

Answer 21

A curriculum used to create capitalist serving work force through hierarchy, punctuality etc

Question 22

What do liberal Feminists say on education?

Answer 22

That there has been a steady increase in educational achivment in school for girls

Question 23

What do Radical Feminists say on education?

Answer 23

That its primary function is to maintain gender inequalities

Question 24

What do Chubb & Moe Say?

Answer 24

That state eduction has failed to create equal opportunity because it doesn’t cater to the consumer whilst being controlled by the state

Question 25

What are the similarities between functionalism & The new right?

Answer 25

Both Belive some people are more talented than others

Both favour a meritocratic education system

Both belive school socialises pupils into shared values

New right belives these functions are NOT being performed

Question 26

What do both Gerwitz & Ball argue?

Answer 26

That competition between schools benefits the middle class who can use cultural and economic capital to gain access to more desirable schools

Question 27

What is the Male Gaze?

Answer 27

When men sexualize woman

Question 28

What is patriarchy?

Answer 28

Where men hold the power over woman in the education system

Question 29

What is the double standard?

Answer 29

Certain norms are allowed for one gender but not the other

Question 30

What is symbolic violence?

Answer 30

Representing hostile power in gender (men over woman)

Question 31

What do Heaton and Lawson Argue?

Answer 31

argued that the hidden curriculum taught patriarchal values in schools.

Question 32

What does stanworth Argue?

Answer 32

education reinforces patriarchal Views. Higher expectations of boys than girls

Question 33

What is randells critisism ?

Answer 33

That stanworth did his theory of of interviews and not classroom studies

Question 34

What doe Sue sharp Argue

Answer 34

Change in female priorities (work over relationships)