... (teachers), and installs a sense of work ethic, like punctuality and co-operation. Functionalist theorists believe that this internalisation of norms and values results in social cohesion and stability, as well as ensuring a continuity and order in society. Through the socialisation ...

... women." She argues that women continue to be excluded from key roles in religion despite the fact that woman participate more in organised religion. Evidence from the British Social Attitudes Survey suggests that 65% of church attenders living in Britain ...

... (1996) "they sell the Big mac..Not the Good Mac". Predictability is another component; people do not like to be surprised, by unforeseeable circumstances. Ritzer (1996) notes that a Big Mac in one continent will taste the same in another, he ...

... new jobs became available to women. These jobs were mainly in the domestic services; these jobs usually were things like servants and cooks. In 1851 there were just over 1 million people in the domestic service although by 1901 the ...

... also sustains and in the long term will improve present knowledge. Moore & Davies back up this theory stating that the school provides an 'economic placement'. Through qualifications, it allocates placements of individuals into the employment structure. Durkheim incorporates all ...

... streets or smoking, so they were quite restricted. These women often had one or more maids catering for them, a profession I shall into more detail about later. If a middle class woman was married then she acted as ...

... rarely worked either. Upper class women usually did charity work and the few upper class women that did work had better jobs than the lower class women. The types of work undertaken by women pre 1914 were mainly: * Domestic service ...

... universities did let women study there. Even if a woman was highly qualified, there was resistance to them working: for example, in the teaching profession women had to leave their jobs if they got married and they were rarely promoted ...

... of a wife, that the life of ail women in the household, should revolve around its male head. Nurse, the maids and even Lizzie the cook, accepted this attitude without question." The upper class and the middle class women were better ...

... the war period such as nursing in and out of the army. An example of a nursing job outside of the army was the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Again, lots of these women had never worked before and found the work ...

... than the lower class women. During the war, things began to change. Britain needed to grow it's own food. Most men were leaving for war and trade routes had been cut. This resulted in more women being asked to work on ...

... were worried that if women took up men's jobs now then after the war they would not be able to return to their jobs. Although soon most women were working along side men on a friendly basis some men refused ...

... were worried that if women took up men's jobs now then after the war they would not be able to return to their jobs. Although soon most women were working along side men on a friendly basis some men refused ...

... were worried that if women took up men's jobs now then after the war they would not be able to return to their jobs. Although soon most women were working along side men on a friendly basis some men refused ...

... domestic services around either their own home or for their employers at their home. This mainly happened in the Sweated Trade, which was clothing and dress making. In the sweated trade women were often paid 'piece rate' for the amount ...

... banking and insurance worlds, many professions were still closed to women. Of the three and a half million women in paid employment 50% were confined to jobs in domestic service, despite being highly skilled were paid low wages. Many women ...

... twelve, and staying at school after this meant winning a scholarship or paying fees. Sometimes parents would pay for a son to carry on but not a daughter, as it was assumed that a daughter would get married and be ...

... female population of 23.7 million. Most of the women, who worked were domestic servants (1,740,800), while others were teachers (124,000) and (68,000) nurses. Only 212 women were doctors and 2 were architects. Most women in employment were domestic servants who cleaned, ...

... very clear career structure; you could start off as a scullery maid, and progress to a lady's maid, who would be at the beck and call of the mistress, or perhaps eventually to house keeper who would organize the other ...

... decreased to only 35%. Although in some ways women were treated very unfairly in the post war period, in some respects the war had led to some positive changes in the status of women. The new Welfare State ...

... exist to socialize us into a set of common core values, such as turning up on time for school (and later work); to value achievement (for example exam success and later success at work) and so on. They also ...

... exist to socialize us into a set of common core values, such as turning up on time for school (and later work); to value achievement (for example exam success and later success at work) and so on. They also ...

... control the workforce, the owners of the means of production" (Haralambos and Halborn) The first way in which education functions is to provide Capitalists with a workforce who has the personality, attitudes and values which are most useful to them. If ...

... of commitment and identity. Durkheim also looked at how schools teach social rules and how the school is a 'society in miniature'. School allows these social rules to be learnt in an appropriate context, teaching pupils that individuals need to ...

... they still do not constitute a living wage - enough for a worker to support themselves and their children. This table shows the approximate wages, in US cents, of apparel workers in different countries compared to the living wage in ...