Sociological perspectives are applied to different aspects of everyday life which include unemployment, violence, same-sex marriages, genetics, poverty, education, etc. One specific aspect that these sociological perspectives tackle is education. Education is a social aspect of life where people go to learning institution to receive instructions, and essentially learn. Functionalism, also known as structural functionalism was founded by Emile Durkheim in the mid twentieth century. The basis of this sociological perspective is that society is bound together by the collective efforts of its separate structures that allows it to function as a whole. Two main principles that are derived are structures: the interrelated parts that make up the
