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The role of education in society - Coggle Diagram
The role of education in society
Functionalist perspective
Parsons - socialisation and meritocracy
Secondary socialisation
Meritocracy
Individual achievement
Equal opportunity
Society in miniature
Davis and Moore- role allocation
Durkheim - Solidarity and skills
Promotes social solidarity
Education prepares people for work
Overview of functionalism
Evaluation
Hargreaves - competition and individualism over solidarity
Does education equip people for work?
Education is not meritocratic
Interactionism - too deterministic
Marxism - capitalist values not society's values
Ascribed characteristics more important than achieved
Marxist perspective
Bowles and Gintis
Hidden curriculum
The myth of meritocracy
Correspondence principle
Role allocation
Willis - Learning to Labour
The counter school culture
Why Willis rejects the arguments of Bowles and Gintis
Althusser - ideological state apparatus
Reproduction of class inequality
Legitimation of class inequality
Business and education
Marketisation policies
Profits for capitalists
Marxism overview
Evaluation
Feminists - ignores patriarchy
Marxists disagree among themselves
Postmodernists - out of date
Willis romanticises the 'lads'
The market versus the state
Marketisation
Chubb and Moe - Consumer choice
Lower standard - inefficiency
The state's role in education
One size fits all
Evaluation of the New Right
Are improvements due to marketisation?
Inadequate funding is to blame not state control
Gewirtz - competition benefits the middle classes
Marxists - education imposes the ruling class ideology
Neoliberalism and the New Right
How the New Right and Functionalism are similar