Marxism

Question 1

Marxism?

Answer 1

. Sociology who propose critics of capitalism

. He believed that the economic system has an influence on it’s non economic institutions

Question 2

Class conflict

Answer 2

. Workers are employed to produce goods and sold for profit by their boss

. Superstructure - Family, religion, education

Question 3

Marxism views

Answer 3

. Education plays different roles in society

• Prepares children for work by passing on values and skills needed
• Justify the existence of inequality in society with meritocracy
• Upholds capitalist views of society

Question 4

The hidden curriculum

Answer 4

. Education doesn’t just teach the surface level subjects

. This Prepares students for work
. Bowles and Gintis argue that they’re similarities between schools and work

. Workers are awarded with pay and students with grades

Question 5

Neo-Marxist

Answer 5

. They argue that education passes on the ideology of capitalism

. Althusser argues that education is part of the ideological state apparatus

. Education is a tool to pass these ideas to the younger generation

. Education creates people who will not challenge authority and be obedient workers

Question 6

Inequality

Answer 6

. They believe that meritocracy actually hides that people in education are unequal