marxism - key words

Question 1

Hidden curriculum

Answer 1

Things pupils learn through the experience of attending school rather than the stated aims of the school

Question 2

Subservient workforce

Answer 2

Students who accept authority,are rewarded with high grades for perseverance, punctually and dependability this creates an unimaginative and unquestioning workforce that could easily be manipulated by employers

Question 3

Acceptance of hierarchy

Answer 3

Teachers give orders and students obey, students nave little choice over the subjects they study and now they study them: prepares them for the workplace,

Question 4

External rewards

Answer 4

Students are motivated by qualifications rather than school life, many students don’t enjoy school by qualifications give them promises of employment: this mirrors the workplace as many employers are motivated purely through their wage packet

Question 5

Fragmentation

Answer 5

Students school days are broken up by lesson, between lessons little connection is made and academic knowledge is being fragmented by subject. Most factory/office jobs have their day broken down to specific tasks and are kept away from other employees to increase efficiency

Question 6

Capitalism

Answer 6

An economic system in which a society’s means of production are held by private individuals/organisations and not the government and where products, prices and the distribution of goods are determined mainly by competition In a free market

Question 7

Correspondence principle

Answer 7

There are close parallels between schooling and work in a capitalist society

Question 8

Ideological state apparatus

Answer 8

Controlling peoples beliefs, values and thoughts obscuring the reality of exploitation and ensures people are in a state of false class consciousness

Question 9

Hegemony

Answer 9

The domination of one group ( the ruling class) or ideology over others and the acceptance/consent to them by the rest of society