Roles of education

• What do Davis and Moore believe the function of education is?


  Provides role allocation and motivates students to work
• What does Durkheim believe the function of education is?


  Provides social solidarity and creates social order by the passing on of norms and values
• What does Parsons believe the function of education is?


  Provides a bridge between the family and society via meritocracy which awards achievements
• What is the hidden curriculum?


  Knowledge taught by the school outside of the formal curriculum
• What does Althusser believe the function of education is?


  Schools are part of the ideological state apparatus which the bourgeoisie uses to maintain power and legitimise inequality
• Who studied subcultures of working-class boys?


  Paul Willis
• What did Bourdieu propose?


  There is a myth of meritocracy which is altered by cultural capital
• What is cultural capital?

  The knowledge, language and relationships that is accessible to the MC
• What do feminists believe the function of education is?


  To reproduce patriarchal views via the hidden curriculum
• What do new right's believe the function of education is?


  To prepare students for society by mirroring and functioning like a business
• What are the criticisms of the functionalist view of education?


  Ignores how inequality influences achievement, myth of meritocracy is shown via statistics
• What is a criticism of the marxism view of education?


  Pupils are aware of their socialisation into capitalism which is shown via subcultures
• What is a similarity of the marxist and functionalist view on education?


  They both argue that education has a large impact on the individual
• What is a difference of the marxist and functionalist view of education?


  They each have a different view of the effect that inequality in education has on the individual