Consensus Conflict Clash between ideas, principles and people. Can be covert or overt conflict.

A general widespread agreement among all members of the particular society. Absence of conflict is seen as the equilibrium state of society.

Interested in how societys institutions family, government religion, education and the media

STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM Parsons AGIL Scheme. Adaptation adapt its environment and adapt environment needs. Change, Adjust, Embrace and Cope up Goal Attainment achieves its primary goal Integration regulate the interrelationship of its component parts. Latency system must furnish, maintain and renew both the motivation of individuals and cultural patterns that create and sustain motivation. According to the Structural Functionalism view, educational change or reform results from the interaction between society and the schools. Specifically, five steps involve: A need arises in society The school assigned the task of meeting the need Change in the educational structure takes place to accommodate the new function The new role is assumed by schools; Latent and manifest changes take place in society as consequences of the new educational functions.

Consensus Theory emphasizes on social order, stability and social regulation see shared norms and values as a fundamental to society, focus on social order based on tacit agreements Dahrendorf recognizes that society cannot exist without both conflict and consensus. (prerequisites) Social order and stability/social regulation form the base of emphasis Concerned with the maintenance or continuation of social order in society, in relation to accepted norms, values, rules and regulations as widely accepted or collectively by the society or within a particular society itself.

Conflict Theory Focuses on the struggle of social classes to maintain dominance and power in social systems. Dominance of some social groups by others, see social order as based on manipulation and control by dominant groups. Horton and Hunt (1984) focuses on heterogeneous nature of society and differential distribution of political and social power. How school contributes in unequal distribution of people into jobs in society? More powerful members of society maintain the best position. Karl Marx focuses on the struggle of social classes to maintain dominance and power in social systems

Action System behavioural organism that handles the adaptation function by adjusting to and transforming the external world

Personality System Performs the goal attainment function by defining system goals and mobilizing resources to attain them

Social System Copes with the integration controlling its component parts. function by

Cultural System

LAGUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Social Dimensions of Education Ms. Dijan

Performs the latency function by providing actors with the norms and values that motivate them for action.

LAGUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Social Dimensions of Education Ms. Dijan