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CHAPTER 3: SOCIAL SCIENCE

THEORIES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS


TO EDUCATION.

Structural Functional Theory

Key ideas:

1. Society is made up of interconnected parts, each with a specific function so all parts of
society must work together for stability and balance.

2. The role of schools is to prepare students for their own participation in the society.

3. The functionalist theory is focused on social stability and solidarity.

4. Functionalist type of people sees education as a beneficial contribution to an ordered society.

5. Functionalism sees active social change as undesirable because the various parts of society
will compensate naturally for any problems that may arise.

Purposes of Schooling according to Functionalists

1) Intellectual purposes acquisition of cognitive skills, inquiry skills

2) Political purposes educate future citizens; promote patriotism; promote assimilation of


immigrants; ensure order, public civility and conformity to laws

3) Economic purposes prepare students for later work roles; select and train the labor force
needed by society

4) Social purposes promote a sense of social and moral responsibility; serve as a site for the
solution or resolution of social problems; supplement the efforts of other institutions of
socialization such as the family and the church
Conflict Theory

● maintaining the status


● introducing changes then arrive at an agreement
● welcomes conflict for that is the way to the establishment of a new society.
● potential conflict between any groups where inequality exist.
— Racial, gender, religious, political, economic.

● Unequal groups usually have conflicting values and agendas causing them to compete
against one another.
● This constant competition between groups for the basis for the ever changing nature of
society.
● The factory works one change better working and condition higher salaries.

How Proponent of Conflict Theory Regard Education

● Education is not clearly a social benefit or opportunity as seen by the functionalities.


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● Maintaining power structures
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● Creating a docile work force for capitalism

Purpose of Education

● To maintain social inequality


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● Preserve the power of those who dominete society.
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● Teach those in the working class to accept their position as a lower class worker of
society.
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● Hidden Curriculum
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● Socialized young people into obedience
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● Conformity for them to be developed as docile workers.
Symbolic Interactionist Theory Perspective:

What is a symbol?

Symbols can be actions, objects or words used to express something. Maybe gratitude,
excitement, trust, care support, etc.

Background

● Introduced to American sociology by George H. Mead in the 1920s

● Originates from Max Weber's idea that individuals act based on their interpretation of
the world.

● Focuses on how people create meaning through social interactions

Three tenents of symbolic interactionist theory are:

1. An individual's actions depend on meaning

2. Different people may give different meanings to the same thing

3. Meanings change as individuals interact with one another.

Implication to education:

The symbolic interactionist theory in school teaching focuses on how teachers and students
interact and assign meaning to behaviors, actions, and symbols in the classroom.

Weakness of symbolic interactionist theory perspective

● Neglects the macro level of social interpretation


● Focuses too much on small or individual interactions
● Misses larger societal issues

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