Marxism

Question 1

What is the role of education?

Answer 1

To socialise children into accepting inequality through the myth of meritocracy

Question 2

Althusser

Answer 2

Education is a tool to socialise children into meritocracy

Question 3

Bourdieu - Cultural capital

Answer 3

Cultural capital describes the knowledge and skills required to do well in the education system

Question 4

Bourdieu - Habitus

Answer 4

Bourdieu believed as teachers are mostly middle class they find it easier to relate to middle class children with similar behaviours

Question 5

Ball, Bowe and Gurtiz

Answer 5

Examined the effects of parental choice and competition between schools in a table. They monitered the parents decisionson which school they wanted their child to attend, suggesting it benefited middle class children as they were focused upon while lower achieving students were passed onto other schools

Question 6

Bowles and Gintis

Answer 6

Education prepares children for the working world, which requires a hierarchy, rewards subservience and rewards hard work