allocation‚ skills allocation and socialisation. Role allocation was created by Parsons and developed by Davis and Moore. It is a process in education by which students are judged on their abilities and suggested suitable career roles‚ making sure the highest jobs are taken by the most talented people. Skills allocation is when the students are put in groups depending on what they’re good at. For example students that are good in maths are put in accounting etc. Socialisation is a process through which
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important in society. The structure and processes of education systems are related to the general process of socialisation. All sociologists agree with this‚ but sociologists have many different views about how societies are structured. They have many different views about the role of education in society. The following research will focus on the role of education from a Functionalist‚ Marxist and an Interactionalist ’s perspective. Functionalists think of education as a positive function
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To exercise social controls over society’s members in order to ensure that they don’t stray from valueconsensus. (through rewards and punishments) ● To make sure that people take on economic roles jobs that are appropriate to their abilities and skills Murdock without socialisation or education there would be no culture Parsons Families are ‘personality factories’ which ensure that children learn and internalise society’s shared norms and values. Murdock The sexual functions of families operate to ensure that couples have exclusive
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home are more likely to look for guidance and comfort elsewhere and are more prone to crime. They are therefore more likely to find role models in such situations who they aspire to grow up like. The Marxist theory of alienation however is another factor that sociologists have recognised. Marxist theorise that young‚ impressionable adolescences often feel pressurised by those in power who often use the law to benefit themselves and are therefore forced in to demeaning work. Due to this‚ many turn
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and criminal justice‚ and ISA (Ideological state apparatuses) that generate ideologies which individuals internalise and act according with. ISAs include schools‚ family‚ politics. Rather similar concept can be found in the work of the humanistic Marxist Gramsci. He took Marx’s basic division of society into an economic base and superstructure further when he divided the superstructure into those institutions that were overtly coercive (political society that includes government‚ police) and this
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Sociology is the subject which looks at the social world around us‚ how the social world works and how it effects and influences our daily lives. People tend to accept the social arrangements in which they grew up as normal or too complicated to understand. The family is the natural way to bring up children and schools are the normal places for children to learn. For most people the social world is just there‚ challenging their lives‚ they cannot change it and it is not really worth while trying
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aim to control the behavior of its members subconsciously. The various agencies of socialization like family‚ state‚ school‚ club etc are also the agencies of social control. They exercise regulatory influence over the behavior of the individual. Marxists would say that through education‚ values and norms of the ruling class are transmitted to new members of society whereas feminists would say that education socializes girls into the typical female roles such as carers and etc. Karl Marx‚ saw society
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bad/harmful for its members? This is an essay in which I will attempt to evaluate the premise of whether a nuclear family is bad for its members using differences between the Functionalist perspectives of the family against the contrasting view of the Marxist and Feminist approach. I will outline the main approaches from all three and draw a conclusion. Sexual – The family legitimises sex for the adult members. This closed unit allows the male to fulfil his natural function and alleviates the need
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such as sense of community and being employed in the industrial industry doing manual work such as mining. It is considered to be the lowest group in our society’s hierarchy. Their identities can be created and reinforced through the process of socialisation. One way the working class identities can be considered to be negatively created and reinforced through the education system as for example‚ some working class pupils will the formal curriculum. Wills (1977) found that the working class ‘lads’
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patriarchal ideology which is control mainly by male dominated ideas. They feel that they are stereotyped to have the expressive role in the family and that they have to live by this role. Marxist feminists argue that the nuclear family functions to benefit the capitalist’s ideology and the patriarchal ideology. Marxists feminists argue that the focus on women as mothers puts considerable pressure on women to have children and to take time out of the labour market to bring them up. This pressure can make
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