AQA A-Level Sociology - Education - The Role of Education - Questions

Who argued that school helps create social solidarity and value consensus by socialising us into shared norms and values?

Durkheim

Which theory suggests education teaches us specialist skills which are needed in complex economies and jobs?

Functionalism

Who argued education is a bridge between the family and other parts of society such as work?

Parsons

Who argued that education takes us from particularistic to universalistic norms and values?

Parsons

Who argued that education helps in the process of role allocation and that the education system is a meritocracy?

Davis & Moore

Which theory argues that the education system fails to prepare young people adequately for work because of a failure to teach the appropriate skills?

New Right

Which theory take a broadly functionalist approach of what education should be like?

New Right

Which sociologists say that the creation of a free market using marketisation policies will produce a better education system?

Chubb and Moe

Who argues that Middle Class children do better in education because they work harder and are more intelligent?

Saunders - New Right Theory

Which theory believed that as a result of globalisation, workers need high levels of skills in order to compete?

New Right

Which theory argues that the main role of education is to reproduce class inequalities?

Marxism

Who said there is a similarity between social relationships in the workplace and in education? This is the correspondence principle.

Bowles and Gintis

Which theory said education helps produce a subservient workforce as the hidden curriculum enforces an acceptance of hierarchy?

Marxism

Which theory said school subjects are fragmented in the same way that routine work is?

Marxism

Who said education is dominated by M/C culture and rewards those pupils who share a similar cultural background and knowledge?

Bourdieu

Who neglects gender and ethnic inequalities and doesn't explain why some W/C pupils do succeed?

Bourdieu

Who argued that the schools are part of the states Ideological State Apparatus?

Althusser

Who studied 12 W/C 'lads' and found that they see through the meritocracy of school and create counter-school subcultures?

Willis

Who said Willis neglected girls and conformist male students in his study?

Angela McRobbie - Feminist

Who found that stereotypical views within schools direct girls into stereotyped subject choices?

Grafton - Feminism

Who found that boys get more teacher attention than girls?

Stanworth - Feminism

Davis and Moore - Role Allocation

the education system sifts and sorts pupils in terms of their ability to reward high achievers with high qualifications