Marxism

Question 1

What is an ISA?

Answer 1

It is an ideological state apparatus and is an indirect way of influencing society

Question 2

Who came up with ISA and RSA?

Answer 2

Althusser

Question 3

What does Althusser say the 2 functions of the ideological state apparatus?

Answer 3

Reproduction - reproduce the inequality by failing each generation of WC pupils

Legitimation - try’s to convince people that inequality is inevitable and failure is due to the fault of individual and not capitalism

Question 4

Who came up with the correspondence principle?

Answer 4

Bowles and Gintis

Question 5

What is the correspondence principal?

Answer 5

Education correspondences or mirrors work to prepare WC students for a future as manual workers

Is transmitted through the hidden curriculum e.g pupils accept hierarchy

Characteristics schools prize most in students are obedience and punctuality the same as capitalism does in workers