Socialisation - Education (secondary)

Question 1

What two curriculums are there?

Answer 1

•Formal - school subjects
-ethnocentric
-decided by national curriculum
•Hidden - school rules and uniform (conformity)

Question 2

Ethnocentric definition

Answer 2

formal curriculum based
Biased to England (history, language,)

Question 3

Functionalist views

Answer 3

•Parsons - family is best to teaching norms and values.
-specialised institutions like schools don’t work as well as nuclear

•Durkenheim - likes hidden curriculum, creates value consensus and social solidarity

Question 4

What functionalist sociologist believes that the family is best to teaching norms and values.
-specialised institutions like schools don’t work as well as nuclear

Answer 4

Parsons (functionalist)

Question 5

What functionalist sociologist likes hidden curriculum, creates value consensus and social solidarity

Answer 5

Durkenheim (functionalist)

Question 6

Marxist views

Answer 6

•Bowles and Gintis - long shadow of work. Blind obedience to authority

•Althusser- education part of Ideological State Apparatus

Question 7

What did Bowles and Gintis believe?

Answer 7

Education is a long shadow of work. Blind obedience to authority

Question 8

What did Althusser believe?

Answer 8

education part of Ideological State Apparatus

Question 9

Type of school can influence socialisation

Single sex, private, religious

Answer 9

Cultural, social, economic capital