CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Millennium Development Goals, Cultural Capital, Programme For International Student Assessment
21 Apr 2016
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Structural functionalist theory school has manifest and latent functions: schools function to maintain an equilibrium in society, and maintain a steady pace, functions that are obvious and not so obvious to everyone, manifest functions. Cognitive learning math skills, creative art, language, reading, writing. Selection and allocation of skills be able to identify their own particular interests and capacities. Cultural reproduction children learn what it means to be a citizen in their classes, ethnicities, what it means to be a moral/amoral person: latent functions. Custodial control of children schools provide children a place to be cared for, and allows parents to do other things. Employment replacement children took jobs for adults, so putting kids in schools allowed for employment with adults and for wages to increase for adults. Wells children either in school, at work, both, or neither (home: we fail to recognize a place where children can discover themselves because it is regulated by the school, and the workplace.
