Education

Sociologists

Durkheim

Functionalist

2 main functions of education

• specialist skills

• secondary socialisation

  = transmit shared norms and values - H.S.S

Parsons

Functionalist

Edu is important bridge between family and wider society, see edu as meritocratic - everyone has the same ability to succeed - an equal playing field

Davis + Moore

Functionalist

Sift + Sort education (Role allocation) inequality is inevitable

- brightest ppl top set, if clever set them up for success

- less clever encouraged into less higher paid jobs

‘right job‘ for ‘right ppl‘ = aim high for financial job but not valued by others e.g. m/c paid more

Althusser

Marsist

Part of ideological stat apparatus (edu) promotes RCI not shared norms and values (FCC - your fault) - prepare w/c ppl for w/c jobs

Bowels + Grintis

Marxist

Correspondence principle - through hidden curriculum - set for work place

• Uniform, rules, bell (time) = Hierarchy

• myth of meritocracy (level playing field) - mat + cult rep (tanner)

• speech codes (Bernstein)

Bordieu

Marxist

Cult dep - m/c can afford to make catchment areas, know how to play the game - reproducing inequality

• argues we commit symoblic violence against m/c

Willis

Neo-marxist

w/c boys are not interested in educational qualification and form subcultures which are dominated by male mass - rebel against school

• ‘Lads‘ - anti sch subculture - reject rewards of school

• edu does not produce student who believe in meritocracy