Education: Marxism

Question 1

Capitalism

Answer 1

An economic system, which means of production (factories) are mostly privately owned, and operated for profit.

Question 2

Bourgeoisie

Answer 2

Own the means of production (factories), and generate a surplus value

Question 3

Proletariat

Answer 3

Don’t own the means of production, they sell their labour for a wage (they work)

Question 4

Ideological state apparatus

Answer 4

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)

Question 5

Habitus

Answer 5

Refers to the norms and values, attitudes and behaviours of a social class

Question 6

Cultural capital

Answer 6

Non-financial social assets that promote social mobility (knowledge of the education system)

Question 7

How does education reproduce culture??
DRESS CODE

Answer 7

-More formal
-Based on the middle class taste
-Working class may be removed

Question 8

How does education reproduce culture??
LANGUAGE

Answer 8

-Grammerly complex
-Used in schools
-Working class is at a disadvantage
-it’s in the middle class field

Question 9

How does education reproduce culture??
CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

Answer 9

-Middle class lack cultural experience (ski)
Puts them at a disadvantage

Question 10

“Long shadow of work’

Answer 10

Schools crate docile and obedient workers

Question 11

Paul willis

Answer 11

Supported the view that the bourgeoisie want to maintain power, but schools fail to brainwash pupils.

Question 12

Shop floor culture

Answer 12

Norms in a working floor, normally rejecting authority

Question 13

Penetrations

Answer 13

The “lads” insight on the capitalism system

Question 14

Exploration in the workplace

Answer 14

-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

Question 15

What are some criticisms to Marx’s idea to reproduce a labour force

Answer 15

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)

Question 16

How does education reproduce culture

Answer 16

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

Question 17

what are criticisms of Marxist view on legitimise inequality?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

six examples of high school mirrors the workplace

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Correspondance principle

Answer 19

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)

Question 20

criticisms of Marxist view in the long shadow of work

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Ear’oles

Answer 21

Conformists students who action way that is considered acceptable

Question 22

two ways the lads have a laff

Answer 22

1) make animal figures on the screen with their hands
2) jab, the back of the ear’oles in front of them

Question 23

explain two reasons why the 12 lads reject working hard in school

Answer 23

1) mental work was sissy, whereas manual work was masculine
2) school is boring

Question 24

Marxist believe there a 4 main function of education

Answer 24

1) Reproduces inequality of production in capitalist society
2) Justify inequality’s through the myth of meritocracy