role of education

Davis and Moore- role allocation (func)

works as a sieve, grading people and allocating them to jobs based on their individual ability

Parsons- facilitating social mobility (func)

enables individuals to move up and down the social ladder

Durkheim- encourages social cohesion (func)

through formal education, pupils identify with british culture and unites people in society

Parsons- secondary socialistaion (func)

pupils learn the cultural norms and values of society

social control (func)

schools teach pupils to conform and follow the rules

ao3 of func view

ignores negative effects

assumes it socialises everyone

is it really meritocratic?

Althusser- ISA (mx)

reproduce an efficient and obedient workforce

Bowles and Gintis- correspondence principle (mx)

the school corresponds with the workplace in the way it creates specific relationships to help maintain the capitalist system and the r/c power

Submission to authority

External rewards

Legitimising inequality

Bourdieu- m/c habitus (mx)

Culutral/economic capital

aspects of cultural capital

Speech codes

parental engagement

hobbies

neo-liberal- the market

society should be run according to the logic of the market place

Chubb and Moe- neo liberalists

parentocracy

performativity

ao3 of neo-liberalism

schools are incentivised to get underperforming students to leave rather than develop