marxism

first main function of education

• reproduce social class inequalities - trains people from wc backgrounds to wc positions while allowing elite to have higher jobs

second main function of education

• legitimates inequalities through myth of meritocracy - convinces members of society ability chooses role instead of class background

althusser

bourgeoisie maintain power by using repressive state apparatus and ideological state apparatus that spread bourgeois ideology - false sense of consciousness - prepares wc to accept life of exploitation

correspondence principle

Bowles and Gintis - there are parallels between school and work in capitalist societies as they both have hierarchies

passive and docile

rewards and sanctions given out on the basis of compliance and creativity is punished