https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2017-05-22 10:50:27 UTC 2025-10-20 14:00:33 UTC hello@padlet.com j_ruddick https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173108484 Functionalists argue that society operates by value consensus. This is a shared set of norms and values which allow society's members to cooperate harmoniously. 

They also believe that the education system is meritocratic; this means that every has an equal chance based on ability and effort.

]]> 2017-05-22 10:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173108484 j_ruddick https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173109086 Bridge - The education system acts as a bridge from family life to wider society, as said by Parsons. 
Role Allocation - The education system selects and allocates pupils to their future work roles (Davis and Moore)
Economic Funtion - The education system teaches pupils specialist skills that people require to play their part in the economy.
Social Control - Cooperating with people who are neither family or friends who we would not usually socialise with. 
Transmission of Cultural Values - The education system passes on shared values from one generation to the next.]]> 2017-05-22 10:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173109086 j_ruddick https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173110025 New right thinkers favour the marketisation of education. This is treating the school like a business.

 

]]> 2017-05-22 11:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173110025 j_ruddick https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173110306 The views on the education system helped shape the 1988 education reformed act. It had 2 key principles, which were: Marketisation and Parentocracy.

Various ideas were introduced, such as:
Standard Assessment Tasks - Introduced at the ages of 7, 11 and 14, on core subjects.
National Curriculum -  The purpose was to standardise content taught across schools.
Leauge Tables - Published annually, and ranked schools in terms of SATS, GCSE's AND A Level results. These are open to the public.
Ofsted - A government watch dog inspecting schools and reporting their findings in public documents.
Prospectuses - Schools compete to attract pupils through open evenings, as they could no longer rely on local children attending their local school. ]]> 2017-05-22 11:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173110306 j_ruddick https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173111073 Bowels and Gintis argue capitalism requires a workforce with the kind of attitudes, behaviour and personality types suited to their role in wider society as workers excepting hard work, low pay and orders from above. ]]> 2017-05-22 11:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173111073 j_ruddick https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173111260 The education system does this by keeping parallels between schools and work in capitalist socitey. Examples of this could be:
Both of them are hierarchies
Both have rules on dress
People work for end rewards. 

These parallels are referred to as the correspondence principle by Bowels and Gintis, as the education system mirrors the relationships and structures found at work. The correspondence principle operates through the hidden curriculum, meaning that all the lessons that are learnt in school are not directly taught. ]]> 2017-05-22 11:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/j_ruddick/nhcsaqeghiy/wish/173111260