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All notes taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqe6aryDUhM
Who had contrasting ideas on education?
Althusser, Bowles and Gintis, and Bourdieu examined the structural causes of inequality in the education system
Wilis suggested that students were not ‘passive puppets’ and were aware of exploitation
What is learning to labour?
Mixed methods approach- observations, interviews
Studies ‘the lads’- a group of working-class boys who were disruptive, misbehaved and had a very negative attitude to educated
Anti-school subculture- praise earned from behaviours against the school ethos
What are the conclusions of education?
Education was ineffective as an agent of socialisation
‘The lads’ were not socialised into work, rather waiting to leave education
Contradicts the work of functionalists and other Marxists
What are the applications to contemporary society?
An anti-school subculture within contemporary education
Crisis over the achievement of working-class males
Does being a working-class male carry a label of underachievement?
What are the evaluations of Willis’ view on education?
Close bonds with boys could have caused the Hawthorne Effect
‘Choose to fail’- is this by design by free will?
End results- Working-class boys ended up in working-class jobs- does this prove that education reproduces inequality?
