marxist perspective-Willis

Question 1

what was Willis’ study

Answer 1

he studied 12 boys in wc area in the midlands in a participant observation study

Question 2

what did he find about the ‘lads’

Answer 2

-rejected the values of the school
-were hostile to the ‘ear’ ‘oles’ who were more likely to be from mc backgrounds
-saw little point in schoolwork when they expected to take manual labouring jobs
-saw manual jobs as proper work based on traditional working-class masculinity and middle-class jobs as ‘pen -pushing’
-were sexist(looking down on women) + racist(looked down on ethnic minorities

Question 3

willis disagreed with Bowles and Gintis why?

Answer 3

argued school is not very successful at socialising children into being obedient, as ‘the lads’ he studies were an anti-school subculture = rejected everything the school stood for

Question 4

what were the ‘ads’ subculture focused on?

Answer 4

focused on masculinity - willis found they viewed both working hard in school + white-collar jobs as effeminate