A level Sociology Education questions and answers universal value - a value that everybody finds it valuable Education passes on norms and values in order to integrate individuals into society. Education helps to create social order based on cohesion and value consensus, and to strengthen social solidarity. - Durkheim, Functionalist theory. Value consensus - Most of the people in a society share the same core values Social solidarity - a set of norms, values and morals that hold a certain group of people together. The school is a bridge between the family and adult roles of society. - Parsons- Functionalist Schools pass on a universal value of achievement - Parsons- Functionalist Education selects children into appropriate roles because it meritocratic - Parsons- Functionalist Meritocracy (in education) - The best able will succeed - functionalist Every society sorts its members into different positions- they think that there are rules as to how education does this- called principles of stratification. - Davis and Moore 1945 functionalist There has to be a system of unequal rewards (more money or status) to motivate people (as an incentive) to reach the top positions - Davis and Moore 1945 functionalist The school that believes education is