marxism Flashcards
education is the ideological state apparatus
Althusser
repressive state apparatus - police
ideological state apparatus - manipulation - false class consciousness
capitalism is reasonable - competitive values
passively accept future roles
compliant and obedient workforce
ideological state apparatus eval
interactionism - children arent passive - children are not destined to be exploited - deterministic
functionalists - socialised and not manipulated - meritocracy
education creates a passive and subservient workforce
easy to exploit
hidden curriculum - bowles and gintis
values taught through hidden curriculum eg acceptance of hierarchy and authority of teachers - corresponds to authority of managers
correspondence theory
passive workforce eval
doubtful schools successfully instil attitudes and values such as punctuality - ofsted have found low-level disruption is common place
interactionism - active
marxists are blind to evidence that suggests society becoming more open - more meritocracy - as funding improving
myth of meritocracy
bowles and gintis
willis - learning to labour
money determines how good an education you get
legitimises class inequality
myth of meritocracy eval
functionalists eg davis and moore - society is meritocratic and everyone has equal chance to success
new right - peter saunders - social mobility exists in UK and middle class achieve as they happen to be more clever
neo-marxism
paul willis - learning to labour
- anti-school subculture - value system opposes school
interpretivist approach - qualitative data
ideological state apparatus - expectation to fail
myth of meritocracy - follows w/c path
neo-marxism eval
feminism - ignores the experience of girls - overemphasises class and ignores other forms of inequality
pm - class is more complex in postmodern world - classless society