sociologists

• Bowles and Gitins -

  • reproduction of the workspace, hidden curriculum helps in the world of working
  • correspondence principle (school mirror to workspace)
  • punctuality, rewards,sanctions and division of students. Preence hierarchies and power
• Bourdieu -

  • education is not good for society and controlled by the bourgeoisie and teaches middle class ideas (cultural capitalism)
  • middle class students achieve more and better than working class.
• emile durkheim -

  • main aim of education, teaching norms and values, create social cohesion, creates a new workforce for the future.
• Ann oakley

  a feminist sociologist she calls the nuclear family the conventionally family because it is presented as the only acceptable family.
• Janet forster argues that most extended family lives only a few streets across from each other to keep in contact
• Function of family - murdock

  sexual, reproductive , economic , socialization
• Ann Oakley:

  stereotyping children and making them fit into the 'standards' met for both males and females
• Robert chester -

  He argues that nuclear family is still the main type of family

  most children still bought up by 2 parents.

  Most cohabiting couples go to marry.

  Most people live in a nuclear family at some point in their lives.
• Dianne reay 1998

  found that on average mothers understand the school system more therefore help the child to succeed more academically.
• Halsley 1980

  found that material factors are more important than cultural in a child's decision to stay in education or not.
• Tony sewell 1997

  argues that peer group pressure i s very intentional among young African - Caribbean boys
• Studies - Oxana

  lack of socialization,

  new adaptations towards norms and values
• nature vs. nurture

  identical twins James Arthur Springer + James Edward Lewis

  39 years later reunion

  - Each married and then divorced a woman named Linda. Their second wives were both named Betty.

  - both names their sons Alan

  had many things in common even though they were separated all their lives.
• Parson's theory considers education a 'focal socializing agency', which acts as a bridge between the family and wider society, detaching children from their primary caregivers and family and training them to accept and successfully fit into their social roles.
• Durkheim viewed education in terms of the social system in which it exists and believed that it usually corresponds accurately to that existing system. Society views "education as 'the means by which it secures, in the children, the essential conditions of its own existence.
• Weber believed that each layer of management should provide supervision to the layers below them while being subject to the control of those above them. Thus, individuals at the top of the management hierarchy have the most authority, while those at the bottom have the least power.
• The New Right support traditional family values and a traditional heterosexual nuclear family.

  The New Right believe that the best way to bring up children is to encourage conformity and raise them within a family made up of two natural parents and the division of instrumental and expressive gender roles.
• Feminism in sociology is a key conflict theory that believes society is based on inequalities between men and women. It is a conflict theory, as feminists believe society is in constant conflict due to the subordination of women by men.
• Functionalism emphasizes how various social institutions work together to meet the needs of a society. Structural-functional theory, also called functionalism, sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of the individuals in that society.
• Marxism in sociology is a key conflict theory that believes capitalist society is based on inequalities between the bourgeoisie (ruling capitalist class) and the proletariat (working class). The economy is the base of society, whilst all other institutions form the superstructure.
• Parsons claims that human personalities are made and not born. They are created through the process of socialisation. The main agent of primary socialisation is the family.
• delphy and leonard

  family exploits women because

  • womans labour is not values by men
  • financially women must depend on men
  • subordinate position in a family