2. Functionalist Research in to Education
How Education
integrate Society as
a whole?
Functions of
Education for Society
as a whole?
Motivated by these three
main Questions
3. Links To Relationship Of Education
To The Economic System
Education Helps To Integrate Society
As A Whole.
5. Emile Durkheim
Society can only
survive if there exists
among its members a
sufficient degree of
Homogeneity.
Education
Reinforces this
Homogeneity.
6. It Is By Respecting The School
Rules That The Child Learns To
Respect Rules In General
Emile Durkheim
9. Talcott Parsons
He argued that the school, after the family,
takes on the role of the focal socializing
agency
In a family the child is
judged against particular
standards whereas in
society the child is set
against universalistic
standards.
10. A child's status is ascribed , it is fixed by birth
Functionalist Believe that:
In Modern Societies
Status is largely
Achieved Through
Education