Sociological Perspective on Education: Consensus & Conflict

The Marxist view on education stresses that

• education facilitates the teaching of norms and values to young people

• individuals acquire skills which allow them to meet societal goals

• society rewards individuals for hard work

• education allows the elite to dominate society

One of the latent functions of education can BEST be reflected in students

• learning how to obey persons in authority

• being given detention for wrongdoing

• wearing the right uniform

• being punctual to class

A meritocracy is a system in which rewards and social positions are based on

• class and gender

• ability and ethnicity

• achievement and class

• ability and achievement

"Education is the key to upward social mobility."

This view is shared MAINLY by

• Weberians

• Structural functionalists

• Neo-Marxists

• Symbolic interactionists

The Caribbean education system produces some individuals who cannot read and write sufficiently to administer simple daily tasks. What is the term for this condition?

• Streaming

• Delinquent subculture

• Poor academic self-concept

• Functional illiteracy

Which theoretical perspective believes that education plays the three following roles: socialization, skills provision and role allocation.

Outline three criticisms of the functionalist/consensus perspective.

Explain the concept of the hidden curriculum as proposed by Bowles and Gintis.