The Marxist Approach

Question 1

Karl Marxist

Answer 1

Every society has 7 main social groups, ruling class and subject class

Question 2

Bowles & Gintis

Answer 2

The reproduction of an obedient labour force.

Question 3

Ivan Illich

Answer 3

Argues that schools are repressive institutions which promote conformity

Question 4

Louis Althusser

IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARATUS

Answer 4

The reproduction of the ruling class ideology and the socialisation of the working class into accepting this ideology

Question 5

How to Marxists see education

Answer 5

Marxists argue with functionalists that education in a capitalist society only transmits the ideology of a minority - the ruling class.

Question 6

EXAMPLE of Marxist vs Functionalist

Answer 6

Denis Wrong (1961) argues that functionalists have an “over-socialised view” of people as mere puppets of society