- Like Davis and Moore, Parsons’ argued the education system functions to put the right people in the right jobs through a meritocratic system of role allocation
- it also passes on society’s culture – education helps establish a value consensus through the hidden curriculum (the hidden curriculum – how students learn behaviours, values, beliefs, and attitudes)
- socialization – Parsons argues how the function of school is to take over the role of parents as sites of secondary socialization.
- it also provides a bridge between particularistic values and universalistic values
- schools also function to equips individuals with with the skills needed to achieve their status rather than rely on ascribed status
- provides a trained and qualified labour force – schooling equips people in society with the right skills needed to do their jobs creating a division of labour
- meritocracy – Davis and Moore said the education system becomes the best mechanism for rewarding individual effort legitimising social inequalities
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