Role of Education Flashcards
Functionalism
Durkheim- two theories
Social Solidarity + Specialist Skills
Fuctionalism
Parsons- three theories
School is a bridge + Meritocracy + Achieveing status
Functionalism
Davis and Moore
Role Allocation
Functionalist- criticism
Wolf review
Good vocational courses are rare
Functionalism- criticism
Wrong
Anti-school subcultures means they reject the values of school making it unfair
Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism
- State shouldn’t control education
- Compete in a global market
- Schools should be more like businesses
New Right
Chubb and Moe
Families should be given a voucher to spend on buying and investing in education
New Right- Criticism
Gewirtz and Ball
Only beneifts the middle class as they have the money to do so
Marxism
Althusser- two theories
Ideological State Apparatus + legimising inequlity
Marxism
Bowles and Gintis- four theories
Obedient workforce + correspondence principle + Hidden Curriculum + meritocracy is a myth
Marxism
Willis
Lads Counterculture
Marxism- Criticism
Willis
Romanicing WC life
Marxism- criticism
Marrow and Carlos
Ignore other factors such as ethnicity and gender
