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Role of Education (Theories of Education (Parsons: Meritocracy (Family…

- - - - Teaching Specialist Skills
        
        Specialist skills need to be taught for the division of labor
      - Creating Social Solidarity
        
        society needs a sense of solidarity (individuals feeling as they are part of a single body) Without it social life/cooperation = impossible
        
        Done by transmitting society's culture
        Teaching a country's history = sense of shared heritage + commitment to wider social group
        
        School = 'society in miniature' and prepares us for life in wider society.
        
        School & work we cooperate with unknowns (teachers and pupils in school).
        
        We interact with others according to impersonal rules
  - - - Ascribed status: dependent on person
    - - Impersonal standards: All are treated the same