30 marker

• The education system is meritocratic because one of its functions is….

  Role allocation
• …… argue that the eduction system perform role allocation- as it ……. individuals based on……

  • davis and moore
  • ‘sifts and sorts’
  • ability
• with…………. and ensures the most…… fill the most…….in……..

  • equality of educational opportunity
  • talented
  • important
  • society
• davis and Moore argue that the education system is …….. because it……. individuals based on……… effort and……..

  • meritocratic
  • rewards
  • academic
  • ability
• with higher……for top jobs………. students to……. and work hard to……. …….

  • rewards
  • motivating
  • compete
  • achieve success
• …… agrees with davis and moore that…….. happens in a ……. way


  • parsons
  • role allocation
  • meritocratic
• this is because, access to…. and to positions of …… depends not on ……… but on an individuals ……………

  • jobs
  • power
  • family background
  • educational qualifications
• this is a meritocratic process because the …… and …….. ensures that if students……… the can ……………….. and higher……… , such as entry into…….. universities or……….

  • grading system
  • standardised testing
  • work hard
  • achieve higher grades
  • rewards
  • prestigious
  • high-paying careers
• indeed, ….. and ………., ………. research showed a …… link between a students ………. and their ……..

  • Oakes and griffin
  • VESPA
  • direct
  • level of effort
  • final grade
• nevertheless, ………….. argues that women are……. to be in positions of………

  • feminist Ann Oakley
  • less likely
  • power
• given that ….. achieve ……. than men in the …….

  • Women
  • Higher
  • Education system
• this suggests that…….. is not ……… and based on…… and …… but rather to some extent on ……

  • role allocation
  • meritocratic
  • efforts
  • ability
  • gender
• furthermore, ……… argues that …… often ………. working class students

  • interactionist Becker
  • educators
  • negatively label
• which then negatively ……. their ……… achievement

  • influences
  • educational
• this suggests that role allocation may not by fully …… by…… and ….. but also by factors such as …….

  • determined
  • efforts
  • ability
  • teacher biases
• ……. Right ……. And …….argue that ….. education systems …… meritocratic …….. due to a lack of…….

  • New right
  • Chubb
  • Moe
  • State-run
  • Undermine
  • Role allocation
  • Competition
• nevertheless, ……. argues that ….. …… gives ……. students an unfair …… in this competition. for example, …… are disproportionately …. in ….. universities.

  • bourdieu
  • cultural capital
  • middle class
  • advantage
  • private school students
  • represented
  • elite
• the education system is ……. because its a …… which ……. people into …… meritocratic value

  • meritocratic
  • focal socialising agency
  • socialises
  • universalistic
• …… argues that the education system …… as a ….. between the …. and ….. society, helping individuals move from being ……. by …… to accepting ….. in school

  • parsons
  • serves
  • bridge
  • family
  • wider
  • judged
  • particularistic standards
  • universalistic standards
• ….. is achieved, not …. at birth, meaning that students are being …… by their …. and ….. rather than their ……. ……..

  • status
  • ascribed
  • judged
  • abilities
  • efforts
  • family background
• ……. claim that …… educational ……. is embedded in the school ……, as all students are ….. to the same … and ….. , reinforcing the idea that the education system is …….

  • functionalists
  • equal
  • opportunity
  • system
  • subjected
  • rules
  • expectations
  • meritocratic
• for example, ……. values in education include ….. competition, …. based on …. , ….. treatment and the belief that ….. effort leads to …..

  • universalistic
  • fair
  • achievement
  • ability
  • equal
  • individual
  • success
• nevertheless, …… and …… argue that the education system is a ….. …. ….. and the … of meritocracy is one of the biggest

  • Marxists Bowels and Gintis
  • myth
  • making
  • machine
  • Myth
• furthermore, …… ….. argues that functionalists have an ……….. of people as mere …… in society and …. claim that pupils ….. accept the … and …

  • internationalist wrong
  • over-socialised view
  • puppets
  • wrongly
  • passively
  • norms
  • values
• ….. argue that the education system is ….. meritocratic but instead functions to …. existing ………………..

  • Marxists
  • not
  • reproduce
  • class inequalities
• for example, ……. argues that the … of …. education was introduced to ….. the working class by …. them into ….., leaving …. employers with a cheap, …. and …. workforce which cannot join ………

  • Dan Finn
  • policy
  • vocational
  • subordinate
  • channeling
  • low-paid work
  • capitalist
  • young
  • replicable
  • trade unions
• moreover, …… and ….. argue that education reproduces ….. because of the ….. costs of education - working class students are ….. to have a ….. place to do …….and less …… to be able to ….. resources such as …., which could … impact their …. despite their … and …..

  • smith and noble
  • inequality
  • hidden
  • less likely
  • quiet
  • schoolwork
  • likely
  • afford
  • tutors
  • negatively
  • attainment
  • effort and ability
• this is supported by data from the ….. …. ….. which found that less than ….. of pupils on …….. achieve five or more ….. at A-C compared to nearly ….of other pupils.

  • department of education (2012)
  • one-third
  • free school meals
  • GCSE’s
  • two-thirds
• this highlights how ….. rather than individual….. plays a role in …. educational outcomes and how the education system just…. existing …………

  • socioeconomic status
  • merit
  • determining
  • reproduces
  • class inequalities
• nevertheless, …….. and ….. argue that …. have a ….. …… and ignore all other types of ……

  • morrow and torre
  • Marxists
  • class first approach
  • inequalities
• furthermore, they argue that …… inequalities are also ……by the ….. ssystem

  • gender
  • reproduced
  • education