structural theories of education

• Durkheim

  functionalist

  social solidarity

  teaching specialist skills
• social solidarity

  refers to how individuals feel connected and united with one another and with society as a whole
• specialist skills

  required for a complex division of labour
• parsons

  functionalist

  focal socialising agency

  society in miniature

  teaching a value consensus
• focal socialising agency

  school acts as a bridge between the family and wider society

  secondary socialisation
• Bernstein

  elaborated and restricted speech codes

  elaborated = middle class

  restricted = working class
• Bowles and Gintis

  Marxist

  hidden curriculum and correspondence principle
• hidden curriculum

  norms and values that are taught indirectly
• correspondence principle

  the norms and values that pupils learn at school correspond to the values which make it easy for future employees to exploit them
• Paul Willis

  Neo-Marxist

  learning to labour study

  focused on the transition of w/c boys from school to work

  anti-school subcultures
• Kat Banyard

  radical feminist - 2011

  sexual harassment in education and how it isn't treated as seriously as other forms of bullying
• radical feminism

  education is patriarchal through the hidden curriculum
• Sue Sharpe

  liberal feminist

  looked at London schoolgirls aspirations and how they changed in the 1980's-1990's

  career driven instead of only wanting a family
• black and difference feminism


  minority ethnic girls are often victims of stereotyping

  for example, Muslim girls are stereotyped to have different ambitions
• Marxist feminist

  they see capitalism as the main source of female oppression

  the education system creates an obedient and compliant workforce
• Davis and Moore

  functionalist

  role allocation - the education system filters and sorts individuals so that the most talented get the best qualifications and the most important jobs