Marxist view of education- sociologists

Question 1

Althusser

Answer 1

• ruling class maintain control
• repressive state apparatus (law/police)
• ideological state apparatus (media/culture/religion/education)
• education performs roles of ISA
• Reproduction- reproduces class inequality
• Legitimation- justifies class inequality

Question 2

Bowles and Gintis

Answer 2

• correspondence principle (schools mirror the workplace)
• role of education is to reproduce the workforce for capitalism
• myth of meritocracy
• role allocation (education allocates roles which have varying levels of rewards)

Question 3

Willis

Answer 3

• neo-marxist
• learning to labour study
• anti school subculture (the lads)

Question 4

Bourdieu

Answer 4

• economic capital (material goods)
• cultural capital (knowledge of culture/lifestyle)
• social capital (who you know)
• symbolic capital (status)
• m/c are more likely to have this capital