Role of education - Y13 Quiz revision

Question 1

Durkheim key ideas

Answer 1

Social solidarity
Specialist skills

Question 2

Social solidarity

Answer 2

individuals must feel themselves to be part of a single body or community
Teaching of a country’s history instils in children a sense of shared heritage and a commitment to the wider social group
School acts a society in miniature

Question 3

Specialist skills

Answer 3

Schools teach pupils specialist knowledge and skills in order to play their part in the social division of labour

Question 4

Parsons key idea

Answer 4

Meritocracy

Question 5

Meritocracy

Answer 5

bridge between the family and wider society
Ascribed status - achieved status
Meritocratic principles

Question 6

Davis and Moore

Answer 6

Education is a device for selection and role allocation

Question 7

Evaluation of functionalism

Answer 7

marxists argue that education in capitalist society only transmits the ideology of the minority - the ruling class
Wrong - over-socialised view
Neoliberalists and the new right argue that the education system fails to prepare young people adequately for work.

Question 8

New right view of education

Answer 8

state education system take a ‘one size fits all approach’ imposing uniformity and disregarding local needs. The local consumers who use the schools - pupils, parents and employers - have no say.

Question 9

Chubb and Moe

Answer 9

State run education in the united states has failed because:
- it has not created equal opportunity and has failed the needs of disadvantaged groups
- it is inefficient because it fails to produce pupils with the skills needed by the economy
- private schools deliver higher quality education because, unlike state schools, they are answerable to paying consumers - the parents.
Proposed a vouccher system to make schools compete for consumers

Question 10

Althusser

Answer 10

education reproduces class inequality by transmitting it from generation to generation by failing each successive generation of working class pupils in turn
Education legitimises class inequality by producing ideologies that disguise its true cause. The function of ideology is to persuade workers to accept that inequality is inevitable and that they deserve their subordinate position in society.

Question 11

Bowles and Gintis

Answer 11

capitalism requires a workforce with the kind of attitudes, behaviour and personality types suited to their role as alienated and exploited workers willing to accept hard work, low pay and orders from above
The correspondence principle - school mirrors the workplace
The hidden curriculum
Meritocracy is a myth

Question 12

Willis

Answer 12

prepares students for fordism