Criticisms of Each of the Functionalist Views
Criticisms of Parsons:
-Like Durkheim, Parson fails to give adequate consideration to the possibility that the values transmitted by the educational system may be those of a ruling minority rather than of a society as a whole.
Criticisms of Parsons:
-Like Durkheim, Parson fails to give adequate consideration to the possibility that the values transmitted by the educational system may be those of a ruling minority rather than of a society as a whole.
Criticisms of Durkheim:
-Assumes societies have a shared culture which can be transmitted through the education. In fact Britain is now multicultural, and therefore can we base school curriculums on one single culture.
-New Right and New Labour perspectives on education have tended to emphasize the economic importance of education and have downplayed the significance of transmitting a shared culture.
-Some researchers question whether in practice schools do act in the way that Durkheim describes.
-His theories are out-dated.
-He doesn’t look at any negative aspects such as bullying.
-He ignores problems of society.
Criticisms of Durkheim:
-Assumes societies have a shared culture which can be transmitted through the education. In fact Britain is now multicultural, and therefore can we base school curriculums on one single culture.
-New Right and New Labour perspectives on education have tended to emphasize the economic importance of education and have downplayed the significance of transmitting a shared culture.
-Some researchers question whether in practice schools do act in the way that Durkheim describes.
-His theories are out-dated.
-He doesn’t look at any negative aspects such as bullying.
-He ignores problems of society.
Criticisms of Davis and Moore:
-The relationship between academic credentials and occupational reward is not particularly close. In particular income is only weakly linked to educational attainment.
-There is considerable doubt about the proposition that the
-Like Durkheim, Parson fails to give adequate consideration to the possibility that the values transmitted by the educational system may be those of a ruling minority rather than of a society as a whole.
Criticisms of Parsons:
-Like Durkheim, Parson fails to give adequate consideration to the possibility that the values transmitted by the educational system may be those of a ruling minority rather than of a society as a whole.
Criticisms of Durkheim:
-Assumes societies have a shared culture which can be transmitted through the education. In fact Britain is now multicultural, and therefore can we base school curriculums on one single culture.
-New Right and New Labour perspectives on education have tended to emphasize the economic importance of education and have downplayed the significance of transmitting a shared culture.
-Some researchers question whether in practice schools do act in the way that Durkheim describes.
-His theories are out-dated.
-He doesn’t look at any negative aspects such as bullying.
-He ignores problems of society.
Criticisms of Durkheim:
-Assumes societies have a shared culture which can be transmitted through the education. In fact Britain is now multicultural, and therefore can we base school curriculums on one single culture.
-New Right and New Labour perspectives on education have tended to emphasize the economic importance of education and have downplayed the significance of transmitting a shared culture.
-Some researchers question whether in practice schools do act in the way that Durkheim describes.
-His theories are out-dated.
-He doesn’t look at any negative aspects such as bullying.
-He ignores problems of society.
Criticisms of Davis and Moore:
-The relationship between academic credentials and occupational reward is not particularly close. In particular income is only weakly linked to educational attainment.
-There is considerable doubt about the proposition that the