Zusammenfassung der Ressource
fuctionalist perspective: education
- assumptions
- Consensus view. Society = harmonious
- Social order. Social solidarity needed for
survival.
- Socialises new members.
Sustains social solidarity.
- Conservative view
- Durkheim
- Promotes social solidarity
- Shares society's norms
and values
- Binds people together
- E.g. teaching a
common history
- Teaches universalistic rules
- Prepares young people for work
- Special skills needed in work in a modern
economy
- Industrial societies =
specialised division of labour.
Special training needed
- Parsons
- Secondary socialisation
- Everyone treated same way
- E.g. all equal before the law
- Universalistic standards,
not particularistic
(Primary)
- Bridge between family and society
- Socialises individuals into meritocratic society