Zimsec A level Sociology Past exam papers and notes.(6043)

 THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC THEORY  ON THE ROLE OF EDUCATION  The social democratic theory is a political theory that advocates technocratic and meritocratic solutions to the problem of differential educational achievement. This theory looks at the relationship between education and the economy in terms of two related processes in modern societies: -technological changes in the work place, involving the decline in traditional manufacturing and the rise of service industries in areas such as the finance, computing and information technology. In the UK for example the tripartite system produced a small percentage(15% )  of highly university entrants and a large number of poorly qualified school leavers. This situation failed to meet the economic need for a better qualified service industry workforce. -social changes focused on ideas about equality in gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class. The tripartite system failed to meet the requirements of social fairness because it w...

  The Functionalist Perspective. By Wilbert  Masamba The structural-functional—or, more simply, functionalist—perspective draws substantially upon the ideas of Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer,and Émile Durkheim, and takes a broad view of society, focusing on the macro aspects of social life. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the functionalist theories of Talcott Parsons (1949, 1951) and his students occupied center stage in American sociology. Indeed, some proponents such as Kingsley Davis (1959) argued that the approach was essentially synonymous with sociology.   Society as a Social System Functionalists took as their starting point the notion that society is a system, a set of elements or components that are related to one another in a more or less stable fashion through a period of time. Functionalists focused on the parts of society, particularly its major institutions, such as the family, religion, the economy, the state, and education. They identified ...

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