What is the function of educating individuals in capitalist society?
Title: What is the function of educating individuals in capitalist society?
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 2573 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
What is the function of educating individuals in capitalist society?
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 2573 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
What exactly is the function of educating individuals in our capitalist society? Are we really educated individually, or is the system there simply to churn out a workforce to meet our society's growing needs? I plan to look at the views of this matter from different sociologists' perspectives, and examine the ideas behind the function of education - whether it really is a fair an just system, offering us all the chance to succeed, regardless
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it is a constant in our social fabric. However, inequality is fundamental to capitalism, therefore, unless we embrace a political system willing to adress these inequalities, then change cannot be inevitable.
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