Role and functions of Education: Marxism

Question 1

what is the ideological state apparatus?

Answer 1

a Social institution whose
main role is to pass on the dominate ideology of the Ruling class.

Question 2

what does repressive state apparatus mean?

Answer 2

a social institution whose
role it is to enforce the dominant ideology by force or threat of force – e.g. police

Question 3

what does correspondence principal mean?

Answer 3

the ways in which the
education system Mirrors the world of work. E.g. hierarchy,
punctuality and

Question 4

what does the hidden curriculum mean?

Answer 4

the informal learning processes that happen in school it is a
side effect of education that teaches students the norms and values of society.

Question 5

what are the two things Althusser suggested?

Answer 5

reproduction of social inequality
legitimisation of social inequality

Question 6

what does Althusser believe the education system is engineered to do?

Answer 6

deliberately force the w/c to fail in order to create an unqualified
factory workforce.

Question 7

what does Althusser believe private schools prepare children of the elite for?

Answer 7

positions of power

Question 8

what does Althusser suggest the hidden curriculum is shaped to do?

Answer 8

assist m/c achievement and deter w/c achievement

Question 9

what does the middle class have more access to according to Althusser?

Answer 9

cultural and economic capital putting them at an advantage

Question 10

according to Althusser what does education encourage? what does

Answer 10

students to blindly accept capitalistic values through the hidden curriculum

Question 11

what are the two main ideas Bowles and Gintis had?

Answer 11

correspondence principal
myth of meritocracy

Question 12

according to Bowles and Gintis what do school process mirror?

Answer 12

the world of work in order to
prepare them for manual labour:
* wages not satisfaction
* Lack of control
* Obedience
* Achieved status
* Discipline and
consequences
* Boredom

Question 13

according to bowles and gintis what do schools discriminate in favour of?

Answer 13

the middle class

Question 14

according to bowles and gintis what does the hidden curriculum lower?

Answer 14

working class ambitions

Question 15

what is the neo-marxist Giroux evaluation of marxism view on education?

Answer 15

Rejects the view that WC passively accept their position to become compliant workers.

Existence of anti-school subcultures, truancy and exclusion suggest both the hidden curriculum and correspondence principal have failed.

Marxists often fail to
acknowledge that gender and ethnicity often combine with class to produce success or
failure