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Is the role of the education system to reproduce class divisions in the interest of the capital class?
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Is the Role of the Education System to reproduce class divisions in the interest of the capital class? Functionalists, the consensus theory believe that education continues the socialisation started at home by the family. They believe that school teaches children skills needed for later life in work and it also teaches norms and values, what is right and wrong. Education is therefore seen as important to functionalists because it means the passing on of the culture of society from one generation to the next. Another purpose of the education system is to teach children how to take their place as adults. Functionalists believe that the system is based on mertiocratic society, where everyone has equal opportunities. They believe that schools select and grade individuals so that the most able and the most talented are able to take up the most important positions in society, where they are rewarded with higher status...
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