Some would argue that the education system mainly exists to select and prepare students for their future work roles and careers. Marxists believe that the education system’s role is the ideological apparatus of the state; it spreads ruling-class ideology and favours the middle class. Marxists such as Althusser, Bowels & Gintus and Bourdieu disagree with this statement as they argue working class children get a second class education compared to middle class and are given an unrealistic expectation
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education. (20 marks) The New Right perspective have a more political view on education which could be named as old fashioned compared to functionalists. They believed that education is for socialising and preparing young children for the world of work however they say that the state cannot meet peoples needs. The New Right are similar in many ways to functionalists as they believe that some people are naturally more talented than others. They believe that education should socialise pupils into shared
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economic development, advanced technology, and more time to prepare. There are many theoretical perspectives that could related to this national issue. Two theoretical perspectives that play an important role in this are functionalist and conflict theory. Functionalist perspective interprets how each part in society plays an important role to the stability of society as a
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shows a different type of assumptions and defines a certain way of understanding a social institution, from all four unique perspectives. Functionalists believe that society is based on a value consensus, into which society socialise its members. They regard society as a system made up of different parts or sub-systems that depend on each other. Functionalists often compare society to a human body – without one organ, the body wouldn’t function, without basic functions of society, society wont perform
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The Homeless Plight Student Name Course/Professor Date The Homeless Plight Homelessness is on the rise. Homeless people can be seen sleeping in a variety of places such as city subways, terminals, stations, and the underground world of transportation. In the winter, the homeless may be sleeping on top of grates for the warm steam; fires may be burning from cylinders on street corners, under bridges, or in alley ways for warmth. In the summer, buses, subway cars, malls, and fountains are but
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longer makes sense to talk about the patriarchal family: Functionalists support the view that it makes sense to talk about the patriarchal family, they believe in the nuclear family which means that the man of the household is meant to be working and the wife if meant to be doing housework. Oakley argues that housework is a low status job and is different from ‘real work’ that the males carry out. However it may be argued that functionalists are against this view that it doesn’t make sense as the
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Able Camacho ID# 100357680 Section 1 Fall 2012 How would you describe your inner mind? crazy? genius? They say that both are two sides of the same side. Through my experiences, I shape the world around me, developing a unique perspective from my worldview. When it comes to how I perceive reality I just summarize it in these six concepts: culture, meaning, self, self-fulfilling prophecy, and scripts, and self-serving bias. My culture defines me down to my very genetic core. It explains why I drive
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FUNCTIONALIST THEORY A consensus theory. Society has basic needs, including the need for social order. School is fair to all, and helps encourage positive social solidarity, and socialises students effectively. DURKHEIM * Durkheim saw education as the transmission of society’s norms from one generation to the other. This is vital to produce social solidarity. * The school is a miniature society, where students are trained to interact with other students much like they are trained
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their parents, the children are expected to become the nurturer and provider for their parents, a role reversal of sorts. Since a functionalist perspectives focuses on roles/functions, when a family is in a state of conflict, the dynamics of family function can be looked at to pinpoint the areas of issue/tension for the purpose of finding solutions. Looking at functionalist
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Valuables works take different stand on the issue and the interpretation of the role of a consultant in the investment decision-making process may diverse. Largely detailed by Balhadj and Jrhilifa (2009), the consulting literature distinguishes the functionalist view form the critical view. Werr and Linnarsson (2002) The current of though which supports the favourable belief considers that consulting provides added value, whereas the critical belief remain sceptical. Although the decision-making doesn’t
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