PSE4801
ASSIGNMENT 2 2025
UNIQUE NO.
DUE DATE: JUNE 2025
, PSE4801 – Assignment 2 (2025)
Chapter 1: Sociological Perspectives on Schooling
1.1 Functionalist View of Schooling
Schools help transmit shared cultural values and social norms.
They equip learners with skills and knowledge needed for society.
Education sorts individuals into future roles based on their abilities and efforts.
It unites people from different backgrounds into a functioning society.
Promotes social harmony, order, and stability.
1.2 Conflict (Marxist) View of Schooling
Education reinforces existing class structures and social inequality.
Schools promote capitalist values that benefit the elite.
Learners are trained for unequal roles in the workforce.
The system encourages discipline and acceptance of authority.
Prioritizes the interests of powerful groups over those of the wider society.
1.3 Interpretivist View of Schooling
Focuses on how individuals experience and interpret education.
Highlights the importance of interactions between teachers and students.
Views learning as a process shaped by communication and understanding.
Investigates how learners develop identity and meaning in schools.
Challenges the idea that education outcomes are fixed or predetermined.
ASSIGNMENT 2 2025
UNIQUE NO.
DUE DATE: JUNE 2025
, PSE4801 – Assignment 2 (2025)
Chapter 1: Sociological Perspectives on Schooling
1.1 Functionalist View of Schooling
Schools help transmit shared cultural values and social norms.
They equip learners with skills and knowledge needed for society.
Education sorts individuals into future roles based on their abilities and efforts.
It unites people from different backgrounds into a functioning society.
Promotes social harmony, order, and stability.
1.2 Conflict (Marxist) View of Schooling
Education reinforces existing class structures and social inequality.
Schools promote capitalist values that benefit the elite.
Learners are trained for unequal roles in the workforce.
The system encourages discipline and acceptance of authority.
Prioritizes the interests of powerful groups over those of the wider society.
1.3 Interpretivist View of Schooling
Focuses on how individuals experience and interpret education.
Highlights the importance of interactions between teachers and students.
Views learning as a process shaped by communication and understanding.
Investigates how learners develop identity and meaning in schools.
Challenges the idea that education outcomes are fixed or predetermined.
