Role of Education Flashcards
Give three functions of the education system according to functionalists
Allocation function
Secondary socialisation
Transmission of skills
What is meritocracy?
Everyone has an equal chance to succeed - they can work hard and achieve anything
Give two problems with the Marxist theory of education
It assumes that people are passive
Most people are actually aware of the inequalities in education and think they should be fixed
How are the functionalist and marxist views of education different?
Marxists believe that the inequality is illegitimate
Functionalists believe that it results in people trying their best
Why does the New Right argue that schools should be run like businesses?
Private schools have better results as they are responsible to the parents
Businesses compete with each other for consumers and this raises standards
Outline the correspondence theory
Schools are reflected in the workplace:
Rewarded for boring tasks
Subservience
Hierarchy
