Role of the education system Flashcards
Education: Durkheim argues that…
Durkheim argues that the education system transmits shared cultural values which therefore creates conformity and consensus. These values involve the idea that education is important, working with others is important etc.
Education: Durkheim believes that…
Durkheim believe that subjects, such as History and Religious Education, connect the individual to society, past and present. This is through a sense of pride of historic achievements which then reinforces a sense of belonging and strengths social solidarity.
Education: Parsons argues that…
Year
Parsons (1951) argues that education acts as a ‘bridge’ between the home and society. He called education a ‘focal socialising agency’. Education helps children to manage the transition between ‘particularistic values’ taught in the family and the ‘universalistic values’ where a child will no longer be judged according to who they are, but now impartially according to general social rules/standards (e.g exam grades and laws).
1951 six years after WWII
Education: New Right agree that…
New Right agree that the role of education should be to socialise individuals into a set of shared cultural norms.
Education: Marxists agree that…
Marxists disagree that the education socialises an individual into a common shared culture. Althusser believes that the role of education is to pass down a dominant ideology which socialises (legitimates and reinforces) the working class into accepting that social inequalities are natural
Education: Interactionalist person.
Name
Date
Argues that:
Dennis Wrong
1961 (just before Behiye)
Interactionist, Dennis Wrong (1961) argues that socialisation through the education system is not ‘passive’, but actually a negotiated process whereby the individual actively engages in the process.
Education: Radical Feminists argue that…
Radical Feminists argue that the socialisation process in education is not to bring about social solidarity, but to reinforce patriarchal oppression. Sites of oppression include: hidden curriculum, school uniform, language differences from teachers, subject choice.
