Question

Do some research online to explore whether all children provided an equal education? Explain your findings, and apply one of the three main sociological theories

Answer 1

In my point of view, all the children are not given equal education for various reasons. In a country where there are different types of schools such as private, pubic, religious etc, where there are different syllabi, where there are different types of methodology and material and different types of infrastructure, children get different education from different schools. Children from rich family get into a private school by paying a lot of money whereas the poor go to the public school.

Karl Marx proposes his conflict theory which suggests that two types of people are present in the society one who controls the resources and wealth and those who sell their labor. He says that social order is maintained by class differences through domination and power rather than consensus. They are two classes of the society where the rich control all the wealth thus getting better opportunity and the poor have no opportunity thus ending up as a labor again.