General Questions

Question 1

In the interactionist perspective on education, what 6 things do they identify as internal reasons for the social class gap?

Answer 1

• labelling
• self-fulfilling prophecy
• setting and streaming
• pupil subcultures
• the school
• marketisation and selection

Question 2

In the Marxist perspective on education, what is the principle they refer to?

Answer 2

The Correspondence Principle

Question 3

Within the Correspondence Principle, Marxist perspective on education, what 4 things do they identify that the education system does to perpetuate capitalism?

Answer 3

• relationships of authority and control
• relationships of domination and subordination
• fragmentation of knowledge
• motivated by external rewards

Question 4

In Althusser’s view (Marxist perspective on education) what is the education system and what are its 2 functions?

Answer 4

• ideological state apparatus
• reproduces class inequalities by transmitting it from generation to generation
• legitimates class inequality by producing ideologies that disguise its true cause