Functionalist perspective on education Critically evaluate the functionalist perspective on education The key ideas of the functionalist perspective is that society is made up of parts which support the system as a whole and that changes in one part of society (such as the family) changes other parts of society (such as education). ... This is because it takes a pro-society stance. ... Durkheim was critical of the role of comprehensive schools as he believed that putting the emphasis on the individual could lead to a sub-culture within education which was against school due to lack of ...

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.; 2) what the others know about the individual's history; and 3) the stances the individual takes towards the groups that others assume he or she belongs to" (Brooke 142). ... Social interactionism is a great critical lense to apply to Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird....

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After extensively and critically analyzing both the patterns, Bourdieu tried to bridge the gap between the two extremes. To best understand Bourdieu's intellectual stance on bridging this gap we must understand two concepts forwarded by him – habitus and practice. ...

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To Georg Simmel, the stranger is "an element of the group itself whose membership within the group involves both being outside it and confronting it."# As a man with a Jewish background living in Nazi-Germany, he could certainly understand what it meant to be a stranger. While Simmel did in fact ...

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