Question 1
Which functionalist sociologist argued that schools transmit shared norms and values, acting as 'society in miniature' and creating social solidarity?
Correct Answer:
Emile Durkheim
Question 2
Talcott Parsons (1961) described the school as a 'focal socialising agency' that bridges which two settings?
Correct Answer:
Family and wider society
Question 3
Bowles and Gintis (1976) in 'Schooling in Capitalist America' proposed which key concept to explain how schools serve capitalism?
Correct Answer:
The correspondence principle
Question 4
Louis Althusser (1971) regarded the education system as part of which apparatus that reproduces the conditions of capitalist production?
Correct Answer:
The ideological state apparatus
Question 5
According to Bourdieu, what gives middle-class pupils an advantage in school because their home culture aligns with that of the school?
Correct Answer:
Cultural capital
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