Role And Function-marxism

Question 1

Marxism:

Answer 1

Schools reproduce social class inequalities and support capitalism

Question 2

Althusser:

What did he say?

Answer 2

See’s education system as part of the ideological state apparatus. He claims that education, along with other ideological state apparatus such as the family and the mass media reproduced class based inequalities by creating the belief that capitalism is somehow “normal”, “natural” and “just”

Question 3

Bourdieu:

What did he say?

Answer 3

• main function of education is to reproduce and legitimise ruling class culture and power.
• also to socialise the working class into a “culture of failure” so that they take up, without question, routine or work.
• education system favours middle class

Question 4

Paul Willis:

What did he say?

Answer 4

• studied boys in comprehensive schools.
• the “the lads” saw themselves as superior to staff and other pupils.
• living in the adult world