A2 Sociology: Functionalist views on Education

Term to describe: 'Rules and values that give priority to personal relationships'

• Human Capital

• Hidden Curriculum

• Particularistic Values

• Universalistic Values

(a)   curriculum refers to the informal processes that happen in school which teach the norms and values of society.

What applies to all members of society equally?

• Human Capital

• Hidden curriculum

• Particularistic Values

• Universalistic Values

Who said that education is a means of sifting and sorting people into their future work roles?

• Durkheim

• Parsons

• Wrong

• Davis & Moore

What is the concept used to describe:
'Education sifts and sorts people for different levels of the job market'

(a)  

Who said that education provides secondary socialisation and builds social solidarity?

• Durkheim

• Parsons

• Wrong

• Davis & Moore

Who said that education is a bridge between the family and society?

• Durkheim

• Parsons

• Bourdieu

• Davis & Moore

Who criticised functionalism for seeing children as passive puppets of socialisation?

• Bowles & Gintis

• Marxists

• Feminists

• Dennis Wrong

Who criticised functionalism for its explanation of the hidden curriculum, instead arguing that it reinforces social inequality by maintaining the ruling class ideology?

• Interactionism

• Feminism

• Marxism

• Post-Modernism

According to Parsons, education is (a)   of society (small-scale version of society)