functionalism

• durkheim


  • social solidarity
  • specialist skills
• social solidarity


  • norms + values
  • hidden curriculum
  • prepared to accept in society
• specialist skills


  • cooperate to produce items
  • skills to perform roles
• durkheim eval


  • marxists: benefits dominant class
  • wolf: good apprenticeship is rare
• parsons


  • bridge between family + wider society
  • ascribed -> achieved status
  • particularistic standards (child) -> universalistic standards (wider society)
• parsons eval


  • wrong: 'over-socialised view' of people as puppets
• davis + moore


  • role allocation
  • most talented -> higher paid jobs
  • inequality
• davis + moore eval


  • bourdieu: m/c have cultural + social capital, able to gain more qualifications