But if you look behind the ignorance you realize that everyone and everything is being controlled. In “Brave New World” the controllers keep the society stable by determining people’s lives. Even before birth, each person has a predestined life that they are to fulfill. Babies are born from test tubes, eliminating family and giving them a lack of person identity. Without family they are able to reconstruct society because instead of being known as a unit, they are all individuals.
The first functionalist concept, one will be testing out is the Equality of Opportunity. This means that all students regardless of class, gender and ethnicity are seen as equally important by the school and are all given equal chance to succeed. The functionalist Durkheim says schools stress the importance of equal opportunities. In juxtaposition Marxists would say that this is a form of brainwashing. Working class children are told they have the same chances to succeed as everyone else so when they do badly they have no-one else to blame but themselves.
Throughout my lifetime, I have always struggled with these. However, becoming a parent and running a household has helped me learn their value. Harry A Overstreet must have been referring to me when he stated “The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.” Before I became a parent, and learned how to manage my time wisely, I would jump from task to task. Project I had started would be left abandoned in a drawer or closet. I lived in a world of chaos.
| The speaker say; “With kids that age, I think it's more of an addiction, you know, they have to get that text, they have to be talking to somebody all the time. She believed me in so many things, and she did what I told her to do the whole time she was growing up, but this one thing we couldn't get her to quit. | This affected the audience by making them think of their own children or themselves, and how serious this issue is. | EmphasisWhat points are emphasized within the speech?The points that were emphasized within the speech included how texting and driving is an addiction, and that this can happen to anyone. | The speaker says; “I miss her smile.
This is yet another factor to be taken into consideration when assessing the reasons as to why it is only natural for laymen to accede to how they are expected to live. In the Milgram experiment, we see a similar relationship being formed between the teacher and the subject, only on a smaller scale and in a slightly different context. When the subject takes notice of the fact that he is inflicting serious pain upon the learner, he attempts to resist authority by claiming that he is no longer willing to participate in the experiment, as it violates his moral code. In Chapter 5 of Obedience to Authority, this concept is exhibited in many dialogues between the experimenter and subject. “Subject: Well, that’s your opinion.
We seem to lower our standards because we think they are not academically competitive and thus discourage the concept of achievement. Gonzalez urges educators to be aware of cultural issues to truly understand a student’s background. Educators must think and see beyond the “boxes” of ethnicity, race, and nationality and begin to realize a student’s values within his or her everyday practices and their
The hidden curriculum has a big influence on pupils, its one thing to teach the child educationally but if the child is treated unjustly (no voice) by the school system then a much more negative message is given to those pupils about the nature of society. According to Functionalists, meritocracy exists in all of society. Parson (1961) believes in the wider society everyone is treated the same and that your position is determined by your effort and your will to achieve. So society is said to be meritocratic, as everybody can achieve if they want to. Durkheim (2002) Believes that there are fixed rules for all and by transmitting the norms and values across society, it is then fair and meritocratic.
Pain and drugs are used to condition the citizens into their forced beliefs. Electro thereopy and loud unsettling noise is the main condition technique followed by repetition. All citizens are conditioned as children so by the time they are of sexual maturity and of working physical ability. There is no sense of individuality or originality. The theme of family best conveys the truths about the society in "A Brave New World" words like
For us, school is a miniature version of society as it provides us with skills that we need once we enter work or when starting a family also, the experience prepares us for interacting with members of society and the rules that society has. He believed that school rules should be strictly reinforced, punishments should reflect the seriousness of the damage done to the social group and it should be made clear to those who have done wrong why they are being punished. This way, pupils would come to learn that it is wrong to act against the social group, it would also teach them to exercise self-discipline but more importantly that misbehaviour would damage society as a whole. Durkheim argued that education teaches individuals specific skills necessary for their future occupations. This is particularly important in industrial society with its increasingly complex and specialised division of labour.
An example of primary socialisation would be if a child grew up where prejudices were oblivious and apparent the child would then learn these prejudices as part of their norms believing their prejudices was acceptable. Secondary socialisation is when new learning takes place mainly in adult hood so the individual can assimilate into new social groups with broader lines of values and norms. (Arnett, Jeffrey J. 1995) We as individual act and behave in a certain way this is determined by the society and social background we come from. Individuals define right and wrong through learnt behaviour we are not born with such values and beliefs.