Functionalism and Conflict Theories in Practice

Functionalism and Conflict theory are two theories that leverage the reasons of schooling. These two theories are both distinct and alike in their outlook and relation to schooling. fundamentally, the dissimilarities lie in the way these two theories interpret transmission, as well as way functionalists are more accepting and conflict theorists want to change things. The two theories are similar in their views of structure and culture (Baker, 43).

Functionalism contends that humanity functions as does the human body: Like house organisms, all societies own rudimentary purposes which they should articulate out to survive. Like dwelling organisms, they develop organisations to carry out the purposes. Functionalism is a theory that certainly concentrates more on the social aspects and cultural aspects more than any other areas within the schooling systems. Based upon these two aspects, functionalists will try to recognize the social system. From there, functionalists explain how the school systems operate, while at the same time keeping order and equilibrium preserved.

Functionalists outlook the world as though everyone has a part in the scheme and every person has to do their part in alignment for it all to work. The way they accept as true is each lifetime passes down the ways of demeanour and those ways are accepted as the normal ways of life. The functionalist is more accepting of the way things are in society and portray that to be the normal way of life (Bessant, 87).

While learning these normal ways of life, children are educated within the school systems. Although functionalists are very accepting of the things around them, functionalists see schools as the stepping stone for children to grow into their adulthood. Without schools, children would not know how to become adults in this manner, because school is where they learn how to become ...