Sociology 9699

Junior College 2
Garuda
Week 1
Sociology 9699

“No man is an island”

Sociology 9699

“Education”
The process of receiving or giving systematic
instruction, especially at a school or university.
Theories on the role
of Education

Essential Question:
What is Education?
(KWHL Chart)
 Lesson Objectives:
This topic will explain:
Functionalist views about how education
contributes to value consensus and social
solidarity
Education and role allocation
Marxist views about how education contributes
to the maintenance of the capitalist economic
system
(Educations Effect on My Life Worksheet)
 Unlocking Prior Knowledge Activity
 You have learnt previously that
socialisation is an essential aspect of the
relationship between individuals and
societies.
 Through socialisation, individuals become
able to interact with and co-operate with
others around them. While this happens
mainly within the family, it also happens
through the education system.
 Unlocking Prior Knowledge Activity
 How does primary socialisation within the family help
prepare individuals for secondary socialisation in the
education system?

 How do you think secondary socialisation changes from

primary school level to secondary school level?

 What do individuals learn within the education system

to help prepare them to fit in with society when they
leave it?
Task 1: Discussion
Functionalist views about how education contributes to value consensus
and social solidarity.

 Functionalists see society as a social system

consisting of different institutions (family,
work,education and so on).

 These institutions are functionally connected in

two ways:
1. Each institution performs certain essential
(core) functions, such as providing the means
of survival (work) or secondary socialisation
(education).
Task 1: Discussion
Functionalist views about how education contributes to value consensus
and social solidarity.
2. To perform these functions, each institution
needs certain things from other institutions.
In contemporary societies, where the workplace
usually requires a certain level of knowledge and
skill, the education system needs to provide
individuals with the necessary social and
intellectual abilities.
Schools perform this function by approving
(accrediting) certain levels of knowledge and skill
through qualifications.
Task 1: Discussion
Education and role allocation
In the UK, the 1944 Education Act that
established free, universal education
explicitly addressed the relationship
between education and the workplace
through a difference (distinction) between:
• academic students, destined to move on
to university and professional employment
• vocational (employment-related)
students, destined to follow a practical or
technical route into the workforce.
Task 1: Discussion
Education and role allocation
 Secondary (ages 11–15) education was
organised into a three-type (tripartite) system.
 Students were allocated to one of three types
of school after taking an intelligence test at
age.
 The types of school not only followed
contemporary beliefs about the nature of
intelligence, they also reflected current
economic needs in terms of types of labour:
Task 1: Discussion
Education and role allocation
1. Grammar schools provided a wholly academic
education and were aimed at the needs of
professional occupations, such as doctors and
accountants, based on particular qualifications.
2. Secondary modern schools provided a mix of
vocational and academic education aimed at the
needs of the service sector.
3. Secondary technical schools provided a work-related
technical/vocational education and were aimed at the
development of skilled manual occupations. In fact,
this section was never fully established and its
function was largely taken over by secondary modern
schools.
Task 2: Worksheet for Formative
Assessment
Answer the following questions on your worksheet silently.

1.How does primary socialisation within the family help

prepare individuals for secondary socialisation in the
education system?
2.How do you think secondary socialisation changes from
primary school level to secondary school level?
3.What do individuals learn within the education system to
help prepare them to fit in with society when they leave it?
Task 2: Closing

Let’s answer the KWHL chart.

Homework/ Extension
Watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68eFC1_nIwA

END OF SESSION July 26, 2023