Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Evaluation of functionalism
- Education benefits
society as a whole
- Marxists argue that education benefits the ruling
class while feminists see it as benefiting men
- Education promotes the norms and
values of society as a whole
- Marxists see education as
promoting the values of
powerful groups. Hargreaves
believes education promoted
competition and individualism
rather than shared values
- Education promotes
social solidarity
- Education can be divisive because of
a hierachy of schools and universities
which can separate social classes
- Education
achievement is
based on merit
- A great deal of research
shows that class, gender
and ethnicity influence
educational achievement
- Education selects the
most appropriate people
to do particular jobs
- Other factors apart from qualifications influence the labour market