The Role of The Education System

• 1. Education performs Secondary Socialisation, passing on core values
• 2. Education sifts and sorts people for appropriate jobs (Allocation function)
• 3. Education teaches skills needed for the workplace.

• 1. Davis and Moore
• 2. Durkheim
• 3. Talcott Parsons

• 1. Society sorts its members into different positions through education
• 2. There has to a system of unequal rewards (money / status) in order to achieve this.
• 3. There are different rules as to how society achieves this
• 4. PRINCIPLE OF STRATIFICATION

• 1. Education creates social order based on cohesion and value consensus
• 2. Education passes on norms and values
• 3. Integrates individuals into society

• 1. Schools are meritocratic
• 2. Education is a bridge between family and adult roles
• 3. Passes on universal value of achievement.

• 1. Evidence of difference in achievement due to ethnicity, class gender etc suggest education isn't meritocratic.
• 2. Allocation function isn't working (who you know rather than what you know)
• 3. Education doesn't produce what employers need.
• 4. Functionalism doesn't look at how education may serve interests of particular groups due to ideology and values

• 1. Prepares children for the workforce by giving them the skills they need
• 2. Reinforces inequality
• 3. Reinforces ruling class ideology and capitalism

• 1. Althusser
• 2. Bowles and Gintis
• 3. Willis
• 4. Bourdieu

• 1. Education is a part of ideological state apparatus
• 2. Education produces a docile and obedient wrokforce
• 3. RULING CLASS IDEOLOGY

1. Believes that it is because of Cultural Capital that middle class get top positions

2. CULTURAL CAPITAL - Cultural capital is the cultural knowledge that allows MC parents to get their children to succeed academically.

• 1. There is a close link between school and the workplace - they mirror each other.
• (BEYONCE)

• 1. School does not create and obedient workforce
• 2. Some adapt an anti-school subculture

• 1. Marxism assumes people are passive victims
• 2. Willis said that students resist authority
• 3. Most people don't believe that society is fair