Marxism

Question 1

What type of workers do school prepares for?

Answer 1

Exploited workers

Question 2

Which class has an advantage?

Answer 2

Middle class

Question 3

What does education maintain?

Answer 3

Capitalism

Question 4

Willis’ study- W/c pupils enable capitalism

Answer 4

W/c pupils who rebelled and flouted school rules prepared them for unskilled, low paid work.

Question 5

Althusser: Persuasion of the proletariat

Answer 5

Education reproduces and legitimates inequality by persuading the proletariat that they deserve their subordinate position

Question 6

False class consciousness

Answer 6

People’s inability to recognize inequality, oppression, and exploitation in a capitalist society because of the prevalence within it of views that naturalize and legitimize the existence of social classes.

Question 7

Myth of meritocracy

Answer 7

Criticises the “role allocation” arguing that it is only an ideology.

Question 8

Bowels and Gintis: Correspondence principle

Answer 8

Close parallels made in schools and in the workplace- e.g., hierarchy in authority in schools- Headteacher and in the workplace it is the CEO

Question 9

Hidden curriculum

Answer 9

Implicitly taught in school that mirrors the workplace values and skills- e.g., punctuality, turning in assignments when due, being respectful etc

Question 10

Ideological State Apparatus

Answer 10

Controls people’s ideas through ideology.