Feminists argue that education is patriachle and the female experiance of education simply acts to reinforce patriachy. How would functionalists respond to this statement? This essay will study how functionalists view the feminist arguement that education system is still very much patriachle and females have a different and less valued experience of education from males. Feminism is a movement of women who strive to achieve a social and economical equality for both men and women. Its a campeign
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they are special. The role of education is to teach the same standards of everybody and the school is a bridge of family and society. One of the things that education does is socialise children and everybody into a shared value of the meritocracy society. A meritocracy society is where jobs and pay are allocated on peoples individual talents and abilities so its not where you come from in society
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Functionalists take a positive view on education. They see is as a process that instils the shared values of society as a whole. Functionalists believe education performs three main functions: social solidarity‚ specialist skills and role allocation. Durkheim indentified two main functions of education: creating social solidarity and teaching specialist skills. Social solidarity is an individual feeling and being part of a single community. Without social solidarity members would follow their own
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Another criticism would be that Marxists would argue that the only thing that schools teach are the norms and values that support capitalism as schools are seen by them to exploit their pupils. Another functional concept that is used is the term meritocracy; Parsons sees school as a ‘focal socialising agency’ creating a bridge between family and wider society‚ the bridge that school creates is essential as society and family run on two different principals; family is particularistic meaning that their
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Therefore‚ the education system helps select and allocate individuals into their future work roles. Although many sociologists agree this is the main role of education‚ they argue whether this is a positive thing or a negative thing. Whereas Functionalists believe this role of education benefits society and the individuals‚ Marxists believe this is simply not the case it benefits society but not the individuals especially the working class within society. The Marxist view on the education system
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education is provided by teachers‚ lectures and professors. This essay examined and critiqued Durkheim’s functionalist perspective and the Marxian’s perspective to education. The views of a random sample of primary school teachers to Durkheim’s functionalist perspective were examined to determine the implications of their views to educational reform in Barbados. were analysed. The functionalist view was selected because their educational reform created structures‚ plans and curriculum that were
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the main understandings of the functionalist view of the education system is that it acts as a ladder of opportunity for people to achieve the best that they can‚ according to their ability. The best people will then go on to gain the best jobs and become the leaders of their society. This belief is known meritocracy. A meritocracy is a social system in which people’s success in life depends primarily on their talents‚ abilities‚ and effort. The idea of a meritocracy has served as in ideology through
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Functionalists believe that education provides the institution of work with skilled workers; this is the idea of organic analogy‚ where each institution is society work together to benefit one another. Functionalists claim that education is a meritocracy and that education is fair and based on equality of opportunity. They also believe that education provides an opportunity
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British education system. All sociologists accept that education is important in society as people receive 15000 hours of compulsory education. However‚ they have different opinions about the role of education in society. The originator of the functionalist ideology‚ Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) argued that education is an agent of secondary socialisation which transmits norms‚ values and roles (value consensus) and acts as a bridge between family and the whole social system. He claims pupils should
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------------------------------------------------- Compare and contrast Functionalist and Marxist theories of Education in Society. The role of education in society has an important effect on society by way of transmitting cultural values and contributing to the social stratification or class system. Functionalists also referred to as consensus theorists believe education helps stability and functioning of society‚ whereas conflict theorists namely the Marxists see education as justifying and
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