Education

Question 1

Marxism

Answer 1

• Education helps with the reproduction of class inequality
• The education system teaches the skills future capitalist employers need
• Legitimises class inequality

Question 2

New right

Answer 2

• Created An education market.
  • Schools ran like businesses
  • Competing with each other for pupils and parents are given the choice of which school to send their children to
• Schools should teach subjects that prepare pupils for work
• The state was to provide a framework in order to ensure that schools were all teaching the same thing and transmitting the same shared values.
  NATIONAL CURRICULUM

Question 3

Functionalists

Answer 3

• Creating social solidarity
  • Feel social solidarity when we feel a part of something bigger
• Teaching us skills necessary for work
  • Students will spécialisé when it comes to GCSE’s or A Levels
• Teaching core values
  • Passing on of norms and values
• Role allocation
  • Education system allocates people to the most appropriate job for their talents using examinations

Question 4

Feminists

Answer 4

• Subject choices are still shaped by traditional gender norms
• Even though girls do better in school, they are often get paid less than men.
  •Qualifications don’t necessarily mean more pay