The role of education in society Flashcards
1
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Durkheim
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Solidarity and specialist skills
2
Q
Parsons
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Meritocracy
3
Q
Davis and Moore
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Role allocation
4
Q
Chubb and Moe
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Consumer choice - voucher system in the introduction of a market system
5
Q
Gewirtz (1995) and Ball (1994)
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both believe that competition between schools benefits the middle class, who can use their economic and cultural capital to gain access to more desirable schools.
6
Q
Althusser
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- ideological state apparatuses
- repressive state apparatuses
- reproduces class inequality
- legitimates class inequality by producing ideologies
7
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Bowles and Gintis
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- study on New York High students
- found that schools reward precisely the kind of personality traits that make a submissive, complaint worker
- Helps to produce obedient workers
- Correspondence principle and hidden curriculum
- meritocracy is a myth
8
Q
Willis
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- studies a group of 12 working class boys
- anti-school counter-culture
- the lads’ counter culture
9
Q
Morrow and Torres
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Criticise Marxists for only focusing on class inequalities and ignores all other kinds. Argue that society is more diverse now. See ethnicity, gender and sexuality as equally important.
10
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MacDonald
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Argues that Bowles and Gintis ignore the fact that schools reproduce not only capitalism but patriarchy too.
