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SOCIOLOGY EDUCATION STUDIES 2024
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- Education And Popular Culture
SOCIOLOGY EDUCATION STUDIES 2024
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SOCIOLOGY EDUCATION STUDIES 2024Parsons - correct answers Functionalism & Education:
- Education acts as a 'bridge' Education forms a bridge between the family & the
workplace. Family has different values (particularistic) from workplace
(universalistic)
- Education socialises children into society's norms & values (Universalistic). Initial
norms & values taught are those of family (Particularistic) so you need to learn
those of wider society.
- It also selects people for their future roles in society. Using qualifications you are
selected for your future role on the job market.
Emile Durkeim - correct answers Functionalism & Education:
- Education has important functions to perform
Socialisation - passes on norms & values
- Education is microcosm of society moulding us into responsible citizens
- Teaches specific skills needed in economy so we can contribute to society.
Bowles & Gintis (1976) - correct answers Marxism & Education:
'Schooling in Capitalist America'.
- Schools are organised in a similar way to the capitalist workplace.
- Economy needs obedient workers who accept the hierarchy so they need to be
trained to do this.
- Workers motivated by wages so will conform to their role in workplace.
, Giroux (1984) - correct answers Neo- Marxism & Education:
- disagrees with the traditional Marxist approach of Bowles & Gintis, he argues:
- That pupils are not as passive as people think & do rebel against being disciplined
in school
- There are a variety of 'struggles' in school in terms of social class, religion,
ethnicity, gender etc.
- Education is not as closely linked to the economy as we think.
Howard S Becker - correct answers Interactionalism:
- We apply 'labels' to people such as chav, scrounger, nerd, geek etc. these labels
can overtake everything else that we know about a person.
- This is when labels gain 'master status'. - become important & shape life
- argued that the 'ideal' pupil has certain characteristics - do homework on time,
neat , tidy, obedient, work hard & gain good grades.
- People attach meanings to the behaviour of those around them and teachers
label pupils and then treat them differently according to this label.
Rosenthall & Jacobson (1968) - correct answers Interactionalism:
'Pygmalion in the Classroom'
- Told teachers certain pupils were 'intellectual bloomers' i.e. bright.
- The teachers treated these pupils differently
- By end of year, these pupils had performed much better than classmates. These
pupils were in fact, no brighter than the other pupils; were selected at random.
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