DurkheimConflicto y educación

Zusammenfassung

Durkheimian analyses of education enable us to explore the role that education and the teaching system play in modern societies. It has traditionally been maintained that the Durkheimian discourse on education is overly concerned with socialisation and with the complementary nature of the functions of the different apheres that make up society, with the conflict emerging as a social pathology to be eliminated. Nornetheless, these analyses provide the opportunity for associating cultural differences with inequalities in position and class, For Durkheim, education homogenises individuals within a common culture. Yet his definition of education as a process of differential socialisation also implies the socialisation and differentation of individuals in determined cultures that arise from the division of labour. The differentiation in practical terms entails an organization into a hierarchy and inequality. Turthermore, education not only differentiates, for it also lends legitimacy to the difference, as it is set against a backdrop of the illusion of a meritocratic society. Key words: Education, Teaching system. Differential socialisation, imposition. Domination, Legitimising social structure.