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    Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Functionalist Role of Schools in Contemporary Society In looking at the role that schools play in society‚ it is important to first understand what the meaning of a school is. Most people would define a school a s an institution where people go to gain knowledge and to do exams but from a scholarly sociologist point of view‚ a school is an institution where people not only go to get knowledge but also learn how to co-habit with one another in society as one (Anderson 2009)

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    Asses the Functionalist explanations of Social Inequality. (40) Social Inequality refers to any difference between groups or individuals in society which results in one having inferior life chances than the other. Functionalists believe these inequalities are the result of the meritocracy we live in. This is a system based on the idea that social stratification is necessary and desirable for the society. Functionalists argue that inequalities have a purpose; they are functional for society. Functionalism

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    view with functionalist view that the education system benefits society as a whole‚ e.g. social solidarity‚ specialist skills. Explain how the New Right argue that schools fail to meet the needs of employers - much of the teaching is irrelevant to workplace. Functionalist view of education. Definitions for the following terms: Functionalism - The theory that all aspects of a society serve a function and are necessary for the survival of society. Consensus Theory - A social theory that states

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    For the Functionalists‚ education performs a positive function for all individuals in society and has a powerful influence over it. The education system serves the needs of an industrial society by providing a more advanced division of labour; socialising new generations into societies shared norms and values and‚ according to meritocratic criteria‚ allocates roles in. Education supposedly meets societies through three related economic roles; socialisation; allocation and vocational training.

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    Assess functionalist views of the role of the family. What do Functionalists believe the role of the family is? Try to back these up using examples of functionalist sociologists. The whole family has an important part to play within our society and each member have a job to do to keep the family together. Just as Talcott Parsons suggested the theory of functionalism means that the function of anything is about the job that is set to do. However Parsons‚ along with Wilmott and Young argued that

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    Set in 1950’s France‚ Chocolat is a film centred on the Catholic virtue of temperance‚ or rather the struggle to achieve temperance when the church is faced with the temptation of a 2000 year old chocolate recipe. Temperance is defined in the catholic encyclopaedia as “the righteous habit which makes a man govern his natural appetite for pleasures of the senses in accordance with the norm prescribed by reason”‚ and in Chocolat it is the Comte de Reynaud‚ the major and self appointed moral authority

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    which out REF ; martin 1992‚3 NOAM CHOMSKY Chomsky Linguistic Theory  Structure of language   formalism concentrates on the set of rules a language has (competence)‚ and not on the usage of this set when producing phrases (performance)  Moreover‚ humans are supposed to be genetically predetermined to learn language because of the language acquisition device REF ; http://www.chomsky.info/ FUNCTIONALISTFunctionalist maintain that the communicative situation motivates constrain or otherwise

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    Asses the functionalist role of education in society The role of education is to educate individuals within society and to prepare them for working life in the economy‚ also to integrate individuals and teach them the norms‚ values and roles within society. There are many different sociological theories that differ within the role of education within society that attempt to try and explain how society or aspects of society work together. There are several perspectives on the sociology of education

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    Examine the contribution of functionalist sociologists to an understanding of the family (24 marks). Functionalists regard society as a system made up of different parts that depend on each other such as a family. They see family as an important “organ” in the “body” of society. This is because they tend to look at the family in terms of the functions it performs for the benefit of society and the individual. They see the nuclear family of 2 parents with 2 children as the “ideal”. George Peter

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    Sztompka (Ed.)‚ On Social Structure and Science (pp. 339-359). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Merton‚ R. K. (1996). On Social Structure and Science. (P. Sztompka‚ Ed.) Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Merton‚ R. K. (1948/1968). Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: The Free Press Functionalism. http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/soc/s00/soc111-01/IntroTheories/Functionalism.html Retrieved on 29/06/2011.

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