EDUCATION marxist

althusser

• ideological state apparatus

• ideology is fundamental because it reproduces inequality as well and legitimating it

repressive state apparatus

maintaining the rule of bourgeoise by force or threat of it.

ideological state apparatus

controlling people’s ideas values and beliefs

ISA - althusser

• schools transmit an ideology that capitalism is just

• prepare pupils for workforce

• taught to accept their exploitation

• others are trained to control workforce

• become ‘agents of exploitation and oppression’

bowles and gintis

• hidden curriculum

• correspondence theory

• ‘conditioning’ students into attitudes valued and routines

• myth of meritocracy

correspondence theory - bowles and gintis

• there is a clear correspondence between social relationships and those in the workplace

• correspondence is essential for social reproduction

• workplace and schools are both based on hierarchies

• eg. their lack of control to their teachers and their boss , rewards and promotions

myth of meritocracy - bowles and ginitis

• myth of meritocracy legitimates social inequality by broadcasting equality

• those who get jobs seem to deserve them

• but rewards in education and occupation aren’t based on ability but social background

bourdieu

cultural capital

cultural capital - bourdieu

• dominant social classes define their own culture as being worthy 

• teachers are influenced by their style and form

• teachers use ‘bourgeois’ parlance as opposed to ‘common parlance’

• this can be translated into economic capital

boudon

• cost of persistence

cost of persistence- boudon

• wc students have a financial and social burden when staying on in education

• this steers them away from taking route of education

paul willis

• neo marxist

• 12 working class boys (the lads)

• they rejected school and created ‘counter class culture’ with anti school norms 

• this prepared them for the low skill jobs 

criticisms

• deterministic

• focusses too much on class

• overemphasises economic factor

• failure to account for positive roles