WorksheetsRole and functions of education: functionalism
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What only applies to that particular person in a given situation e.g. home?
a)
Human capital
b)
Hidden curriculum
c)
Particularistic values
d)
Universalistic values
2.
What are the informal processes that happen in school which teach the norms and values of society?
a)
Human capital
b)
Hidden curriculum
c)
Particularistic values
d)
Universalistic values
3.
What is the knowledge, skills, values, habits and creativity that make someone an economic asset to society?
a)
Human capital
b)
Hidden curriculum
c)
Particularistic values
d)
Universalistic values
4.
What applies to all members of society equally?
a)
Human capital
b)
Hidden curriculum
c)
Particularistic values
d)
Universalistic values
5.
Who said that education is a means of sifting and sorting people into their future work roles?
a)
Durkheim
b)
Parsons
c)
Shultz
d)
Davis and Moore
6.
Who said that education provides secondary socialisation and builds social solidarity?
a)
Durkheim
b)
Parsons
c)
Shultz
d)
Davis and Moore
7.
Who said that education develops human capital, benefitting the wider economy?
a)
Durkheim
b)
Parsons
c)
Shultz
d)
Davis and Moore
8.
Who said that education is a bridge between the family and society?
a)
Durkheim
b)
Parsons
c)
Shultz
d)
Davis and Moore
9.
Who criticised functionalism for seeing children as passive puppets of socialisation?
a)
Bowles and Gintis
b)
Marxists
c)
Feminists
d)
Wong
10.
Who criticised functionalism for its explanation of meritocracy and argued that this is a myth?
a)
Bowles and Gintis
b)
Marxists
c)
Feminists
d)
Wong
11.
Who criticised functionalists as ignores patriarchy?
a)
Bowles and Gintis
b)
Marxists
c)
Feminists
d)
Wong
12.
Who criticised functionalism for its explanation of the hidden curriculum, instead arguing that it reinforces social inequality by maintaining the ruling class ideology?
a)
Bowles and Gintis
b)
Marxists
c)
Feminists
d)
Wong
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