Role of Education - Sociologists

Question 1

Durkheim

Answer 1

Education transmitting the shared values of society and simultaneously teaching the specialised skills for an economy based on a specialise division of labour

Question 2

Parsons

Answer 2

school is a bridge between work and the family. Schools encourage universalistic values

Question 3

Davis and Moore

Answer 3

Role allocation - schools sorts people into roles into society - this is why there is inequality as all roles must be fulfilled

Question 4

Chubb and Moe

Answer 4

Private schools are better as they are answering to paying customers. State education doesn’t provide students with enough skills for the economy

Question 5

Althusser

Answer 5

Education is part of the ideological state apparatus - leads to transmission of capitalist values and ideology

Question 6

Bowles and Gintis

Answer 6

Correspondence Principle/ hidden curriculum - education prepares you for the exploitation and hierarchy in the work place

Question 7

Willis

Answer 7

Research into anti-school subcultures - boys accept their position in school - teach them to accept mundane work life so much around