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Sociology B - Education. Sociologists from various schools of thought would generally agree that socialisation plays an important part in shaping people and their roles in society, through institutions like the family, the education and consequently the workplace. Here, we will look specifically at the education system and the notion that schools serve to reinforce social class divisions. There have been many changes made to the structure of the education system throughout the past century. These include the 1944 Education act which made secondary education compulsory and was responsible for the introduction of the tri-partite system, the move to a comprehensive system of schools in the 1960´s, to the introduction of the National Curriculum in 1988. Official statistics would suggest that these measures have contributed to an increase in the overall levels of educational attainment (defined by attainment of qualifications), however, sociological evidence indicated that class-based inequalities in educational attainment have failed...

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