The Functionalist Perspective on Education
Functionalists focus on the positive functions of education – creating social solidarity, teaching core values and work skills and role allocation/ meritocracy
education, Functionalism
Social Theories
Essay plans, Families and Households, Functionalism
Family essay plan – Modern nuclear family….
Assess the view that the modern nuclear family is the most effective type of family unit in which to socialise
education, Marxism, Social class, wealth and income inequalities
The reproduction of class inequality in education
This video explores the role of social and cultural in the process of the reproduction of class inequality. This video
Families and Households, New Right
The New Right View of the Family
The New Right believe the traditional nuclear family is the ideal type of family. They support social policies which encourage nuclear families – they are pro marriage and against benefits for single mothers.
Families and Households, Postmodernism and Late Modernsim
Late modern perspectives on the family
The pure relationship and the negotiated family become the new family norms. Choice but within structure.
Feminist Perspectives on the Family
A summary of liberal, marxist and radical feminist views on the traditional nuclear family
Families and Households, Marxism
The Marxist Perspective on The Family
Engels believed the nuclear family emerged with capitalism and private property, contemporary Marxists argue the family performs ideological functions.
The Functionalist Perspective on the Family
Functionalists focus on the positive functions of the nuclear family, such as secondary socialisation and the stabilisation of adult personalities.