la educacion en Durkheim: ¿socialización versus conflicto?

Abstract

Durkheimian analyses of education enable us to explore the role that education and the teaching system play in moderm societies. it has traditionally been maintained that the durkhaimian discourse on education is overly concerned with socialisation and with the compplementary nature of the functions of the diffrerent spheres that make up society, with the conflict emerging as a socail pathology to be eliminated. nonetheless, 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 os education as a process of differential socailisation also implies the socialisation and differentiation of individuals in determined cultures that arise from the division of labour. this differentiation in practical terms entails an organisation into a hierarchy and inequality. furthermore, education not only differentiates, for it also lends legitimacy to the difference, as it is set against a backdrop of the illusion of a maritocratic society.