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Assess Functionalist and Marxist approaches to the relationship between education and economy.
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Assess Functionalist and Marxist approaches to the relationship between education and economy. Functionalists have constructed two questions to help them research education. The first question is. "What are the functions of education for society as a whole?" and the second question is. "What are the functional relationships between the education system and other parts of the social system". Emile Durkhiem writing at the turn of the last century found that the major function of schools was the transmission of society's norms and values. Durkhiem stated that without "essential similarities", co-operation and social solidarity social life would be impossible, there needs to be a "degree of homogenity". Durkhiem stated that for a child "to become attached to society, the child must feel in something which is real, alive and powerful, which dominates the person and to which he owns the best part of himself". Durkhiems view is supported by America where there...
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