Questions and answers on the Marxist perspective on the role of education - includes the view of Althusser, Bowles and Gintis and Willis
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Created by ashiana121
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According to Marxists, society is divides into what two classes?
What do the capitalist class own?
How do capitalists make their profits?
Who describes the education system as an 'ideological state apparatus'?
Along with the ideological state apparatus, Althusser argues there is another element used by the state to keep them in power. What is this?
What is meant by the ideological state apparatus?
Give some examples of ISA's
What does the repressive state apparatus do?
Give some examples of RSA's
Althusser argues the education system performs two functions as an ISA. What are these two functions?
What does Althusser mean by reprodution?
What does Althusser mean by legitimation?
Who argues that capitalist society needs a passive docile labour force?
How do they argue this is achieved?
Bowles and Gintis argues there is a corresposdence principle between what two institutions?
What does this similarity produce?
Give some examples of the correspondence principle
Bowles and Gintis argue that the correspondence principle operates through what?
What is the hidden curriculum?
What does this mean pupils passively accept?
What is 'meritocracy' and which 2 perspectives argue that it is the case in the education system?
Why do Bowles and Gintis argue this is a myth?
What does this do to working class pupils?
In their studies, who did Bowles and Gintis argue got the best grades?
Who does this mean the education system rewards?
Who did Willis study?
What view of Bowles and Gintis did Willis reject?
Why was this?
What type of subculture did the lads studied by Willis form?
How did they act in school?
What was this anti-school subculture similar to?
What did this explain?
For Willis, what was the irony in his study of the lads?
So, what does their resistance to school end up reproducing?
Name some policies which Marxists believe have resulted in more direct capitalist control over education
According to these Marxists, what do capitalists also gain while the education system provides a willing workforce?
What do Postmodernists say the Marxist perspective is?
Why do postmodernists argue that class divisions are no longer important?
What do postmodernists say is really there where Marxists see inequality?
Feminists argue that schools also reproduce what?
What does McRobbie point out about Willis' study?
However what has Willis' study been the model for research into?
Give an example of how Marxists argue among themselves
Willis has been criticised for ______________ the lads
How is it argued he does this?
Also, what is Willis' study of only 12 lads criticised unlikely to be?
