Parsons on Education

All notes taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCc3GZhyi_8&t=261s

What is secondary education?

What is secondary education?

• The bridge between home and society- need for value consensus

• Particularistic to universal values

• Ascribed status to achieved status

• Collectivism to individualism

How education achieve secondary education?

• Hidden or informal curriculum

• Norms and values of school

• Assessments

• Competition between students

What are the contemporary applications of secondary education?

• School uniform policies

• Disciplinary policies of schools

• Ofsted- Cultural capital

• Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural Education

What are the criticism of Parson’s view on education?

• Marxists: Hidden curriculum prepares students for exploitation- transmits values of capitalism

• Post-Modernists: The fragmented nature of society means socialisation by various agents

• A clash of working-class and middle-class values in education leads to underachievement