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 does education achieve this?

• Hidden or informal curriculum

• Norms and values of school

• Assessments

• Competition between students

Contemporary applications:

• School uniform policies

• Disciplinary policies of schools

• Ofsted- Cultural capital

• Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural Education

Criticisms:

• 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