Role of Education

Question 1

Durkheim

Answer 1

Social Solidarity- members feel a part of wider soiety
Specialist Skills- complex division of labour

1903

Question 2

Parsons

Answer 2

The Bridge- focal socialising agency between particularistic and universalistic

Meritocracy- everyone has equal opportunity

1961

Question 3

Davis + Moore

Answer 3

Role Allocation- through sifting and sorting students are assessed and catergorised based off grades, top talent get the top jobs, inequality neccessary

1945

Question 4

Cubb + Moe

Answer 4

Marketisation
-State education system fails to provide equal opportunity
-Propose a market system where schools answerable to paying consumers
-1015 state schools, 60,000 LIC students, 5% better in private education
-Role of state -Ofsted
-League Tables
-National curriculum

1990

Question 5

Althusser

Answer 5

RSA- reppressive state apparatus
ISA- ideological state apparatus
-Maintain rule through through controlling students beliefs, values, ideas
-‘Education reproduces and legitimates social class inequality’

1971

Question 6

Bowles + Gintis

Answer 6

-237 New York HS students, school rewards students who display obedient, submissive and compliant traits
-Correspondence Principle- parallels between schools and the working environment
-Hidden Curriculum- relationships and structures mirror those of work
1.Hierarchy
2.Alienation
3.Extrinsic Satisfaction
4.Fragmentation + Comparmentalisation
5.Competition and Division

1976

Question 7

Paul Willis

Answer 7

Learning to Labour
-12 WC ‘Lads’
-Reject effeminate mental work, manual work superior
-Similarity between the counter culture and shop floor culture
-Through resisting the schools meritocratic ideology, their counter cultutre ensures they are destined for the unskilled work capitalism needs people to perform

1977