Education
Sub-topic Role/function Achievement Policy
- Functionalism Internal & external: - Marketisation
Content - Marxism - Class - Privatisation
- Feminism - Gender - Selection (covert)
- Postmodernism - Ethnicity
What did
- New Right
(conservatives, new
labour, coalition)
introduce?
Key Functionalism: Class: Chubb & Moe (NR) –
sociologists
Durkheim – SS, SS Becker – Ideal pupil (labelling) Marketisation &
Parsons – Bridge, Rist – labelling in primary school parentocracy
meritocracy Rosenthal & Jacobson – IQ test Bartlett -
Davis & Moore – RA study (SFP) marketisation =
Marxism: Bourdieu – CC designed to
Althusser – ISA Sugarman – WC subculture encourage
Bowles & Gintis – Bernstein – Language codes competition/parental
CP, HC Reay – Marketisation & class choice, in practice →
Willis – LTL (Marxist inequality led to ↑ inequality
counterpoint) Gender: Gilborn & Youdell –
Sharpe – Changing attitudes educational triage
Francis – Boys’ discipline Gerwitz – Parental
problems choosers
Mitsos & Browne – F of E Ball – Myth of
Sewell – feminisation, lack of parentocracy
male role models Benn – New labour
Archer – symbolic capital & WC paradox
girls (marketisation &
Ethnicity: inequality policies)
Gillborn & Youdell – Educational
triage, institutional racism
Ball – Ethnocentric curriculum
Mirza – Racist teachers & coping
strategies
, Sewell – black male responses
Coard – Cultural exclusion
Fuller – Black girls
Role/function:
Families & Households
Sub-topic Role/function Family change Demographics Policy
- Functionalism - Diversity - Birth rate - Policies
affecting
Content - Marxism - Changing roles (conjugal - Death rate
families
roles, power, childhood)
- Feminism - Life (childcare,
divorce laws)
- Postmodernism - Childhood expectancy
- Personal life - Migration
(changing patterns:) What did
perspective
- Secularisation - Aging (conservative
population s, new
- Divorce & marriage
labour,
trends
coalition)
introduce?
Key Functionalism: Diversity: Birth rate: Land – social
sociologists policy
Murdock – 4 Rapoports – 5 types of Harper –
supports
functions (SREE) family diversity Impact of patriarchy
Leonard –
education
policies may
Sub-topic Role/function Achievement Policy
- Functionalism Internal & external: - Marketisation
Content - Marxism - Class - Privatisation
- Feminism - Gender - Selection (covert)
- Postmodernism - Ethnicity
What did
- New Right
(conservatives, new
labour, coalition)
introduce?
Key Functionalism: Class: Chubb & Moe (NR) –
sociologists
Durkheim – SS, SS Becker – Ideal pupil (labelling) Marketisation &
Parsons – Bridge, Rist – labelling in primary school parentocracy
meritocracy Rosenthal & Jacobson – IQ test Bartlett -
Davis & Moore – RA study (SFP) marketisation =
Marxism: Bourdieu – CC designed to
Althusser – ISA Sugarman – WC subculture encourage
Bowles & Gintis – Bernstein – Language codes competition/parental
CP, HC Reay – Marketisation & class choice, in practice →
Willis – LTL (Marxist inequality led to ↑ inequality
counterpoint) Gender: Gilborn & Youdell –
Sharpe – Changing attitudes educational triage
Francis – Boys’ discipline Gerwitz – Parental
problems choosers
Mitsos & Browne – F of E Ball – Myth of
Sewell – feminisation, lack of parentocracy
male role models Benn – New labour
Archer – symbolic capital & WC paradox
girls (marketisation &
Ethnicity: inequality policies)
Gillborn & Youdell – Educational
triage, institutional racism
Ball – Ethnocentric curriculum
Mirza – Racist teachers & coping
strategies
, Sewell – black male responses
Coard – Cultural exclusion
Fuller – Black girls
Role/function:
Families & Households
Sub-topic Role/function Family change Demographics Policy
- Functionalism - Diversity - Birth rate - Policies
affecting
Content - Marxism - Changing roles (conjugal - Death rate
families
roles, power, childhood)
- Feminism - Life (childcare,
divorce laws)
- Postmodernism - Childhood expectancy
- Personal life - Migration
(changing patterns:) What did
perspective
- Secularisation - Aging (conservative
population s, new
- Divorce & marriage
labour,
trends
coalition)
introduce?
Key Functionalism: Diversity: Birth rate: Land – social
sociologists policy
Murdock – 4 Rapoports – 5 types of Harper –
supports
functions (SREE) family diversity Impact of patriarchy
Leonard –
education
policies may
