1. Sociology and the Fuctionalist View on Education
... vocational A Levels, Youth Training Schemes (YTS) and apprenticeships to prepare young people for work. On the other hand, American marxists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis argue that as education teaches specialist skills , it also prepares working class students to be submissive in the workplace. It does this by teaching ˜lessons' that are learnt without being directly taught. From ... education system is fulfilling its goals. They argue that the reason for its failure is because it is run by the state. They argue that the state takes a ˜one size fits all' approach, imposing unifor...
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