marxism

Question 1

education is the ideological state apparatus

Answer 1

Althusser

repressive state apparatus - police
ideological state apparatus - manipulation - false class consciousness

capitalism is reasonable - competitive values
passively accept future roles

compliant and obedient workforce

Question 2

ideological state apparatus eval

Answer 2

interactionism - children arent passive - children are not destined to be exploited - deterministic

functionalists - socialised and not manipulated - meritocracy

Question 3

education creates a passive and subservient workforce

Answer 3

easy to exploit
hidden curriculum - bowles and gintis

values taught through hidden curriculum eg acceptance of hierarchy and authority of teachers - corresponds to authority of managers

correspondence theory

Question 4

passive workforce eval

Answer 4

doubtful schools successfully instil attitudes and values such as punctuality - ofsted have found low-level disruption is common place
interactionism - active

marxists are blind to evidence that suggests society becoming more open - more meritocracy - as funding improving

Question 5

myth of meritocracy

Answer 5

bowles and gintis

willis - learning to labour

money determines how good an education you get
legitimises class inequality

Question 6

myth of meritocracy eval

Answer 6

functionalists eg davis and moore - society is meritocratic and everyone has equal chance to success

new right - peter saunders - social mobility exists in UK and middle class achieve as they happen to be more clever

Question 7

neo-marxism

Answer 7

paul willis - learning to labour
- anti-school subculture - value system opposes school
interpretivist approach - qualitative data

ideological state apparatus - expectation to fail
myth of meritocracy - follows w/c path

Question 8

neo-marxism eval

Answer 8

feminism - ignores the experience of girls - overemphasises class and ignores other forms of inequality

pm - class is more complex in postmodern world - classless society