Marxism

Question 1

AO1-Social control

Answer 1

Althusser argues education is and ideological state apparatus used to brainwash people into a false class consciousness through the hidden currisulum e.g respecting your place in the hierarchy as student shave to respect those above them like teachers and head teachers.

Question 2

AO3-Social control

Answer 2

Functionalist argue this is too negative and respecting the hierarchy encourages people to work hard and achieve status as well as creating social solidarity

Question 3

AO1-Specialist skills

Answer 3

Bowels and Gintis argue education creates passive and docile workers to maintain capitalist. This is done through the hidden curriculum of the correspndance principle in which school mirrors the workplace. E.g Hierarchy, dress code, competition, alienation, external rewards

Question 4

Ao3-Specialist skills

Answer 4

Postmodernists argue Marxism is now irrelevant. The economy is now based in services and technology which means a different kind of worker is needed - active and flexible not passive and docile

Question 5

Ao1-Secondary socialisation

Answer 5

Bowels and Gintis argue education passes capitalist values which benefit the bourgeoisie. The myth of meritocracy persuades workers that their class position is justified and their own fault ensuring that they don’t challenge it.

Question 6

AO3-Secondary socialisation

Answer 6

Bowels and Gintis wrongly assume that once we are socialised we all conform. Willis’ anti-school subculture.

Question 7

AO1-Sifting and sorting

Answer 7

Bowels and Gintis argue students are allocated roles based on class e.g Stephen Ball found that students were placed into 3 bands based on their father’s occupation meaning that wc students are placed in bottom sets.

Question 8

AO3-Sifting and sorting

Answer 8

Outdated as schools no longer sort students based on manual work and there are loans and grants available for the wc to go to uni.