Sociology of Education Unit 08 What have traditional explanations of education suggested about attainment in schools? Learning targets: • According to Functionalists‚ education has three roles - socialization‚ skills provision and role allocation. • Education helps to support society by the socialisation of young people to cultural values. • Education categorizes people to the posts to which they are best suited according to their talents through the use of examinations
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It is in the family that babies learn to walk & talk‚ & take on the gender roles of those they identify with. In this way‚ we learn to be human. Talcott Parsons regarded primary socialisation as 1 of the 2 basic functions of the modern nuclear family. During childhood the social consensus was passed on within the family. In industrial societies Parsons argued that this function was performed by the nuclear family in which there was role differentiation‚ i.e‚ the mother act as the ‘expressive leader’
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l FUNCTIONALISM Functionalism is the oldest‚ and still the dominant‚ theoretical perspective in sociology and many other social sciences. This perspective is built upon twin emphases: application of the scientific method to the objective social world and use of an analogy between the individual organism and society. The emphasis on scientific method leads to the assertion that one can study the social world in the same ways as one studies the physical world. Thus‚ Functionalists see the social
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Principle sociological perspectives Within this assignment I will be explaining sociological terminology and the principle of sociological perspectives. I will also be covering theories related to sociological perspectives such as Functionalism‚ Marxism‚ Feminism‚ post-modernism‚ collectivism and New right. There have been different perspectives and approaches that have been used to describe societies and the behavior of the people living in them. The approaches explain how much impact and difference
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Dorothy Johnson’s Behavioral System Model in Nursing Practice Inspiration for the Behavioral System Model : Inspiration for the Behavioral System Model Florence Nightingale Grand Theorist: Nursing Hans Selye Endocrinologist: Father of Stress Talcott Parsons Sociologist: Social Action Theory Model was also inspired by behavioral scientists in psychology‚ sociology‚ and ethnology and System Theory scientist . Dorothy Johnson’s Perspective: Dorothy Johnson ’ s Perspective Major Concepts: Attachment-
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Organization Culture And Change Organizational culture – a popular but also a very complex concept – has been identified as an influential factor affecting the successes and failures of organizational change efforts. Organizational culture could be looked at as the pattern of shared valued‚ beliefs and assumptions considered being the appropriate way to think and act within an organization (Schneider‚ 1985). In other words‚ culture: the pattern of shared values‚ beliefs and assumptions considered
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allocated to males and females. Some see this division as biologolical differences between the sexes and others see it happening in cultural backgrounds. There are sociological theories that have tended to see gender roles as natural and inevitable. Talcott Parsons‚ suggested that within the modern nuclear family it was essential that one parent‚ (the father) performed the instrumental role of the leader and provider whilst the mother performed the expressive role of giving psychological support and taking
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society done by the National Curriculum. Another form of curriculum that is included is informal curriculum which is the hidden aspect of school this involves secondary socialisation such as teaching students obedience‚ ethos and norms and values. Talcott Parson a former functionalist claims that status is ascribed in that it is fixed by birth; in modern societies status is largely achieved‚ the usual example being occupational status. Behaviour is measured against school rules; their achievement against
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that it has been common to all sorts and conditions of men at all times and in all countries of the earth‚ wherever the objective possibility of it is or has been given." (6Max Weber‚ The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism‚ trans. Talcott Parsons) (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons‚ 1958). All political and economic systems must cope with greed. Societies that rely on tradition to shape their economies allow some people--usually those with inherited status or willingness to use force against
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