Sociologists Flashcards
Who are the Functionalist sociologists?
Durkheim
Parsons
Davis and Moore
What did Durkeim say about education (Functionalism)?
Education has 2 functions:
Social solidarity and specialist skills.
Who said that the 2 functions of eduction were social solidarity and specialist skills?
Durkheim
What did Parsons say about education (Functionalism)?
Education is meritocratic. School acts as a bridge between home and work. Particularistic and Universalistic values.
What did Davis and Moore say about education (Functionalism)?
Main function of education is role allocation.
Who said that the eduction system was meritocratic?
Parsons
Who said school acts as a bridge between home and work?
Parsons
Who said that educations main function is role allocation?
Davis and Moore
What did Chubb and More say about education (New Right)?
Marketisation is beneficial and increases competition between schools.
What did Althusser say about education (Marxism)?
Education is an ISA. It reproduces and legitimises class inequality.
Who said education is an ISA?
Althusser.
What did Bowles and Gintis say about education (Marxism)?
Correspondence principle.
Hidden curriculum.
Myth of meritocracy.
What did Willis say about education (Marxism)?
w/c boys form anti-school subculture.
THE LADS > school preps them for w/c jobs
What did Bourdieu say about education (Marxism)?
m/c have cultural capital as an advantage over w/c pupils.
Who are the 2 postmodernist sociologists?
Usher
Thompson
