Education: Marxism Flashcards
Capitalism
An economic system, which means of production (factories) are mostly privately owned, and operated for profit.
Bourgeoisie
Own the means of production (factories), and generate a surplus value
Proletariat
Don’t own the means of production, they sell their labour for a wage (they work)
Ideological state apparatus
Althusser argued, there are several apparatus states that are used to control behaviour.
1) Repressive state apparatus: use physical force (army, police)
2) Ideological state apparatus: Control ideas (education, the media)
Habitus
Refers to the norms and values, attitudes and behaviours of a social class
Cultural capital
Non-financial social assets that promote social mobility (knowledge of the education system)
How does education reproduce culture??
DRESS CODE
-More formal
-Based on the middle class taste
-Working class may be removed
How does education reproduce culture??
LANGUAGE
-Grammerly complex
-Used in schools
-Working class is at a disadvantage
-it’s in the middle class field
How does education reproduce culture??
CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
-Middle class lack cultural experience (ski)
Puts them at a disadvantage
“Long shadow of work’
Schools crate docile and obedient workers
Paul willis
Supported the view that the bourgeoisie want to maintain power, but schools fail to brainwash pupils.
Shop floor culture
Norms in a working floor, normally rejecting authority
Penetrations
The “lads” insight on the capitalism system
Exploration in the workplace
-Wages are reduced, to have surplus wealth
-employees have a little motivation
-proletarian, allow exploitation as they have no other choice, They are also brainwashed into a ruling class ideology and a false class consciousness
What are some criticisms to Marx’s idea to reproduce a labour force
Functionalists believe values are transmitted through society, not the bourgeoisie
Post-modernists argue, there is more pathways to succeed, (nepotism, becoming an influencer)
not all students, passively accept the lessons taught (bunking)
How does education reproduce culture
Language: Schools grammar is complex, placing the working class at a disadvantage in this middle-class field
Dress code, more formal and based on middle-class taste.
Cultural knowledge: working class lack cultural experience, putting them at disadvantage
what are criticisms of Marxist view on legitimise inequality?
Functionalist argue, school system benefits, all of society, not just the middle-class
may be wrong to blame schools as they reduce costs of trips for working class
six examples of high school mirrors the workplace
EXTRINSIC REWARDS:
School: teachers have non-questionable authority
Workplace: employee< boss
hierarchy of authority:
School: peoples compete for grades
workplace, employees, complete for money
ALIENATION:
schools: authority loss, control on what you learn
Workplace :)) limited control on the production process
LEVELS:
Schools: peoples put into sets
Workplace: some staff have more supervision than others
FRAGMENTATION:
Schools: learning splits into different subjects
workplace: work is divided into small meaningless tasks
Correspondance principle
Bowles and Gintis argue school mirrors the workplace, school operates in the Longshadow of work to create docile, subservient, and obedient workers, achieved by the hidden curriculum (capitalist views are disguised as common values)
criticisms of Marxist view in the long shadow of work
some people will reject rules and authority (being late) and support auntie school subcultures
Bowl and Gintis: conducted their research in 1976, rights in the workplace has developed and manual jobs have been replaced by Mass production
Ear’oles
Conformists students who action way that is considered acceptable
two ways the lads have a laff
1) make animal figures on the screen with their hands
2) jab, the back of the ear’oles in front of them
explain two reasons why the 12 lads reject working hard in school
1) mental work was sissy, whereas manual work was masculine
2) school is boring
Marxist believe there a 4 main function of education
1) Reproduces inequality of production in capitalist society
2) Justify inequality’s through the myth of meritocracy
