HOW PROPONENTS OF CONFLICT THEORY

REGARDING EDUCATION

According to the conflict theory, education is not truly a social

benefit or opportunity as seen by the functionalist . Rather,
education is a powerful mean of maintaining power structures
and creating a docile work force for capitalism. The purpose of
education is to maintain social inequality and to preserve the
power of those in the working class to accept their position as a
lower class their position as a lower class worker of society