Parsons on Education

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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

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How education achieve secondary education?

  • Hidden or informal curriculum

  • Norms and values of school

  • Assessments

  • Competition between students

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What are the contemporary applications of secondary education?

  • School uniform policies

  • Disciplinary policies of schools

  • Ofsted- Cultural capital

  • Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural Education

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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