Role of education in society Flashcards

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what is the functionalist view on the role of education ?

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that it functions to maintain society as a whole

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What did Emile Durkheim suggest were the main functions of education ?

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Creating social solidarity

teaching specialist skills

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What is social solidarity ?

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that society members must feel themselves to be a part of a single body

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what does parsons see school as ?

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a bridge between the family and wider society

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what is a meritocracy ?

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where everyone is given equal opportunity and achieve rewards for their efforts

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what did Davis and Moore think ?

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That school was a means of sorting us into roles we are suited for (role allocation)

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what is the new right perspective ?

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That the government cannot meet the needs of its people, and we should be left to fulfil our own needs through the free market

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why did Chubb and moe think state run education failed ?

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not everyone had equal opportunity

fails to produce pupils with the skills required by the economy

private schools do better cause they actually have, paying customers

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what is the basic marxist view on education ?

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They see it as being based on class division

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according to Althusser the state consists of two elements which keep the bourgeoisie in power, what are they ?

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The repressive and ideological state apparatuses

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What did Bowles and gintis say ?

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Capitalism requires a workforce with the kind of attitudes for their role

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