Differential Achievement - Class - INSIDE OF SCHOOL FACTORS

Question 1

Durkheim

Answer 1

Education prepares for the ‘specialised division of labour’ - Meritocratic

Question 2

Bowles and Gintis

Answer 2

‘Correspondence Theory’ - Education reflects the workplace to create ‘well trained’ workforce E.g. Hierarchy / rules.

Question 3

Althusser

Answer 3

Education is one of the ‘Ideological State Apparatus’ and is used to manipulate and ‘ideologically control’ us - Prepares working classes to be unquestioning and exploited

Question 4

Abrahams

Answer 4

He states that dominant class and gender ideologies of society are promoted in education by teachers, who subconsciously label students.