Marxist Approach Flashcards
1
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Two main functions of capitalist society
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Reproduces class inequality - serves to legitimise these inequalities through myth of meritocracy
2
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Legitimation
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Process of justifying or gaining support for an idea, policy and institution
3
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Ideological state apparatus (who?)
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Louis Althusser
4
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ISA
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Function to maintain, legitimise and reproduce - class inequalities in wealth and power
5
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Bourdieu
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Working classes are duped into accepting their failure
- education system values culture of middle and upper class
6
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Correspondence theory (who?)
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Bowles and Gintis
7
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Correspondence theory
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Education is controlled by capitalists
- close relationship between schooling and work
- school used to prepare children to work in capitalist business
8
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Pupils are motivated by
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External rewards of exams
9
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Conformist pupils are
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Awarded higher than those who challenge authority
10
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Schools teach
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Acceptance of hierarchy
11
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Criticisms
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- emphasis on class inequality pay no attention to education and pay
- Brown suggests work now requires team work rather than obedience and authority
