Marxist Flashcards

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What do Marxists see the education system being based on?

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Class divisions and capitalist exploitatiojn

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How does education legitimise class inequality according to Althusser?

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Produces ideologies that disguise and persuade the fact that working class underachieve e.g meritocracy

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Who identified the correspondence principle?

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Bowles and Gintis

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Correspondence principle

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How the organisation and control of school mirrors the workplace in a capitalist society

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Example of the correspondence principle

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School - alienation through students lack of control over education
Work - alienation through workers lack of control over production

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Myth of meritocracy

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The education system appears fair but in reality certain groups (in particular wealthy and upper classes) have far more advantages

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