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Education
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Education
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
- secondary socialisation
- encoueraging britishness and social cohesion
- facilitating social mobility
- selection
- serving the needs of the economy
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.
informal education
- takes place when people develop knowledge and skills by observing what is happening around them in everyday life
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.
Marxist Approach
- this approach sees the education system as bebefitting privileged groups and reinforcing social inequalities over time.
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