Marxism and education

Question 1

What sociologists study the socialisation role

Answer 1

Althusser, Bowles and Ginitis

Question 2

education transmits norms and values, what does this create

Answer 2

social stability

Question 3

what is stability based on

Answer 3

internalisation of the dominant ideas of the ruling class

Question 4

what does capitalism mean for society

Answer 4

there is always a potential revolution

Question 5

what is the education system key to

Answer 5

prevent revolution and maintain capitalism

Question 6

what apparatus does althusser study

Answer 6

ideological and repressive

Question 7

what does repressive state apparatus mean

Answer 7

maintaining power of the ruling class through the police, courts and army

Question 8

what does ideological state apparatus mean

Answer 8

maintaining power of the ruling class by controlling peoples ideas, values and beliefs

Question 9

what are 2 important functions of the ISA

Answer 9

1. legitimates class inequality by producing ideologies
2. reproduces class inequality by transmitting it from generation to generation

Question 10

what sociologists study the myth of meritocracy

Answer 10

bowles and ginitis

Question 11

what does education promote

Answer 11

the myth of meritocracy

Question 12

how does the myth of meritocracy privilege higher classes

Answer 12

makes it seem pupils have succeeded fairly in school

Question 13

what does the education system justify

Answer 13

poverty

Question 14

who is poverty blamed on

Answer 14

individuals rather than capitalism

Question 15

what does education prevent

Answer 15

the poor feeling that inequality is unfair

Question 16

what sociologists study the correspondence principle and the hidden curriculum

Answer 16

Bowles and Ginitis

Question 17

what do school create compliance through

Answer 17

hidden curriculum

Question 18

what is the hidden curriculum

Answer 18

the indirect learning in schools

Question 19

what do the international organisations of the school correspond too

Answer 19

the international organisations of the work place

Question 20

what does the hidden curriculum do to help schools

Answer 20

produces obedient workers capitalism needs

Question 21

what are students rewarded for

Answer 21

being passive and submissive

Question 22

what are students punished for

Answer 22

being creative and independent

Question 23

what sociologists study the allocation role

Answer 23

Althusser, Bowles and Ginitis

Question 24

what does equality of educational opportunity existing imply

Answer 24

that not all students have the same opportunity to study at schools which offer the same education

Question 25

what is role allocation NOT based on

Answer 25

meritocratic framework

Question 26

what is educational success based on

Answer 26

social class

Question 27

what does social class determine

Answer 27

the job people get

Question 28

what does education offer limited opportunities for

Answer 28

social mobility

Question 29

what sociologists study the vocational training role

Answer 29

Willis and Finn

Question 30

what do schools not transmit

Answer 30

practical skills

Question 31

what is the central role of schools

Answer 31

social control

Question 32

what does Willis say schools equip youths for

Answer 32

appropriate attitudes for boring routine work

Question 33

What does Finn study

Answer 33

Youth Training Schemes for businesses to employ young people as cheap labour

Question 34

What does vocational education mean

Answer 34

training for specific occupations

Question 35

what does alllocation mean

Answer 35

students are sifted and sorted

Question 36

What does Willis study in the role of education

Answer 36

learning to labour

Question 37

what does education reproduce and legitimise

Answer 37

capitalism

Question 38

what is Bowles and Ginitis view on the role of education

Answer 38

education is a straightforward indoctrination process into the myth of meritocracy

Question 39

What type of marxist is willis

Answer 39

humanist

Question 40

what does willis study about working class males

Answer 40

they create an anti-school subculture to cope with boredom

Question 41

what does paul willis study about working class students

Answer 41

some working class students choose to fail themselves