Marxism and The Role of Education Flashcards
What do Marxism argue about Education
Is a Conflict Theory which focuses on the inequalities between social classes
Alienation
The Condition whereby workers lack power and Control at work and have no jobs Satisfaction or sense of Personal Activity
What is a Correspondence Principle
The Relationship and the structure which is found within education that mirrors the correspondence at work
Exploitation
This Means Workers who Produce the burgers do not get the full value ( Money ) of their Workers and they are therefore being Exploited
Ideological Control of Proletariat
The Idea of being Manipulated the consciousness of the Citizens so they will often accept the Ruiling ideology.
Resistant Anti - School Subcultures
They have no Value of education which means that education just happens and that they believe it’s metratotic which means they’re aware they will never get up the Social Mobility ladder and that ready to work in unskilled jobs.
Studies - The key Correspondence
Bowles and Gintis -
They’ve researched and studied 237 New York high School and found that school produce students who do not challenge capitalism. Schools reward behaviour that mirrors a complaint worker and that students that are independent and Creativity will tend to have low Grades
Evaluation - Bowles and Gintis
The Passive Acceptance, Bowles and Gintis assume that school teaches students to think critically but this causes student to passively accept the inequality
What do Postmodernist view of Bowles and Gintis ?
The Postmodernist argue that the Correspondence Principle doesn’t always Reflect Schools
Studies - Ideological Control of Proletariat
Althusser believes that education that the class inequality by producing ideologies that disguise it’s true cause and that education persuades working class student to accept that inequality is inevitable and that some people deserve lower position in society
Evaluation - Althusser
Althusser whole idea is to make people believe that social mobility is possible and that it is not the case they will stay as proletariat.
Studies - Resistant Anti - School Subcultures
Willis studied that ‘ The lads’ who were part of the anti - subcultures. The 12 Lads found in school boring and Meaningless. They believe that school is meritocratic values were con and that working class lads will never achieve middle class jobs
They saw manual jobs superior that non - manual jobs
