... , gender and cultural heritage as social dividers, suggesting that all students are offered equal opportunity for success based on merit. The Ethnocentric view of education is that it maintains social inequalities by reinforcing and perpetuating ideas of a 'dominant' cultural 'status quo'. (McLeod, p. 410) Although the Australian education system nominally embraces multiculturalism and has policies which ... focus during the 1970s toward a radical dimension of sociology of education showed the ways I which educational practices, far from ameliorating social divisions, worked to...

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... of education. Analyses of the educational system and its relation to capitalism, were initially concerned with class inequalities. Yet, subsequently, various other inequalities in education have been incorporated and considered as having significant effects and consequences for society, such as racial and ethnic inequalities, and particularly gender inequalities. With regards to gender inequality, Conflict Theory states that the functions of education are "legitimation and ... ...

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... courses that people choose to undertake. There is still an apparent lack of male teachers for primary age children showing that structural changes have done little to challenge gender - power inequalities. Ultimately, it would seem that despite efforts made in recent years to break down these traditional gender issues, sexism is still firmly entrenched in our society that significant changes can ... ...

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