Education

Education

1. The functionalist approach to the functions of the eduacation system in the society

   • serving the needs of the economy
     • selection
       • facilitating social mobility
         • encoueraging britishness and social cohesion
           • secondary socialisation
             • social control

2. formal education

   • take splace in educational institutions such as school s and universities where people elarn knowlegde and skills across a wide range of subjects.

3. informal education

   • takes place when people develop knowledge and skills by observing what is happening around them in everyday life

4. the purpose of formal education

   • sociologists disagree about what formal education is for. The functionalists approach focuses on the positive functions that the education system performs in society.

5. Marxist Approach

   • this approach sees the education system as bebefitting privileged groups and reinforcing social inequalities over time.

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