Role of education studies

Who are the key functionalist sociologists for the role of education?

Durkheim (1903),
Parsons (1961),
Davis and Moore (1945)

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Which sociologist believes that education creates social solidarity and teaches specialist skills?

Durkheim (1903) believes that education creates social solidarity and teaches specialist skills.

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Which study challenges the idea that education promotes social solidarity?

Wrong (1961) - interactionist view -
over-socialised view of people as puppets, implies no one rejects the school's values.

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Which study challenges the idea that schools teach specialist skills?

Wolf (2011) argues that a third of 16-19 year olds are on courses which do not lead to h.e. or good jobs.

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Which sociologist argues that education is a focal socialisation agency?

Parsons (1961) argues that education is the 'focal socialisation agency' which prepares children to move from the family to wider society.

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Which sociologists argue that the function of education is role allocation?

Davis and Moore (1945) argue that the function of education is role allocation.

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Which sociologist challenges the view that inequality is necessary in education?

Tumin (1953) argues that Davis and Moore offer a circular argument, so it does not justify inequality. A job is highly rewarded because it is important and a job is important because it is highly rewarded.

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Who are the key Marxist sociologists for the role of education?

Althusser (1971)
Bowles and Gintis (1976)
Willis (1977)

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Which Marxist theorist wrote about the two ways the state maintains capitalism?

Althusser (1971) wrote about how the state maintains capitalism through repressive and ideological state apparatuses.

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Which Marxist sociologists studied schooling in capitalist America, and what did they find?

Bowles and Gintis (1976) studied New York high school students and found that schools reward personality traits that make for an obedient worker, such as punctuality.

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Which sociologist challenges the view that the working-class accept inequality as legitimate?

Marxists such as Willis (1977), disagree with Bowles and Gintis’ deterministic view that pupils passively accept indoctrination as it fails to explain why pupils reject the school’s values.

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Which sociologist studied working-class boys?

Willis (1977) studied a group of 12 working-class boys who resisted indoctrination in to the myth of meritocracy.

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Which sociologists criticise the Marxist perspective for taking a class-first approach?

Morrow and Torres (1998) criticise Marxists for taking a ‘class-first’ approach that ignores how education legitimate all other kinds of inequality such as ethnicity, gender and sexuality.

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Which sociologists propose a solution for the failure of the state education system from a New Right perspective?

Chubb and Moe (1990) call for the introduction of a market system where each family is given a voucher to spend on education from a school of their choice.

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Which sociologist challenges the view that competition between schools leads to higher quality of education?

Ball (1994), a Marxist, argues that competition between schools benefits the middle class, who can use their cultural and economic capital to gain access to more desirable schools.

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