Marxism

Question 1

Name the 3 marxists

Answer 1

Althusser, Bowles and Gintis and Paul Willis

Question 2

What does Louis Althusser think

Answer 2

He feels that education is a an ‘ ideological state apparatus’ –> agencies who serve to spread the dominant ideology and justify the power of the dominant social class. E.g. A teacher.

Question 3

What do Bowls and Gintis think

Answer 3

They think there is a relationship between work and education

Question 4

What do the marxists think the main purpose of education is

Answer 4

To prepare people for the world of work

Helps people prepare for capitalist working

Question 5

What did Paul Willis think

Answer 5

He thinks students don’t always obey the teachers
He found a similarity between sexism
He feels that schools aren’t preparing students for the work force
He wrote a book called “ how working class students get working class jobs”

Question 6

Comparisons between functionalists and marxists

Answer 6

1) both are concerned structural relationship of education

2) both dee education as a powerful influence on children

Question 7

Differences between functionalists and marxists

Answer 7

Functionalist
. Education servers the need of industrial society
Marxist
. Education servers the needs of a capitalist society
Functionalist
.Education justifies and explains inequality
Marxist
. Education legitimises social class inequality

Question 8

Positives of Marxism

Answer 8

Bowls and Gintis provide evidence to support their claims.
Statistical evidence shows clear class difference in attainment

Question 9

Negative of Marxism

Answer 9

Marxism is outdated
Society has entered a new phase
Bowels and Gintis ignore the fact that schools produce patriarchy