Marxism

Question 1

Ideological state apparatus

Answer 1

• Althusser
• allows bourgeoise to maintain control of what people think
• Education reproduces class inequality by transmitting ideas across generations and failing the wc
• Justifies inequality through a set of ideas
• Allows for false class consciousness

Question 2

Correspondence principle

Answer 2

• Bowels + Gintis
• Parallels between school and work.
• Both have a hierarchy
• School mirrors structures at work

Question 3

Hidden Curriculum

Answer 3

• Bowels + Gintis
• lessons taught indirectly e.g competition, accepting authority and mindless obedience

Question 4

Myth of meritocracy

Answer 4

• Bowels + Gintis
• Education teaches you that if you work hard you will achieve highly so blames wc children for their failure

Question 5

Bowels + Gintis study

Answer 5

Studied 237 high school students and found that schools reward submissive, compliant
workers and punished defiant behaviour.

Question 6

Willis study

Answer 6

Studied the culture of 12 working class “lads” using interviews. These lads formed an anti-school subculture when at school which had its own set of values (the “lads” valued having a laugh with their friends rather than the traditional values promoted by school).

Question 7

Willis

Answer 7

• Similar attitudes between anti-school culture and shop floor culture. Manual work = superior and intellectual work = inferior/feminine
• Students have ability to reject values put onto them by school, mainstream Marxism = too deterministic