The role of education; Marxism

Althusser;state consists of 2 apparatuses that keep capitalists in power The repressive state apparatuses=police courts+army, when needed, use force to repress WC The ideological state apparatuses controls ideas, values+beliefs through edu Edu reproduces+ legitimates class inequality through ideologies that persuade workers that inequality=inevitable

Bowles+Gintis; parallels between school+work Eg both hierarchies these parallels are examples of the correspondant principle which operates through the hidden curriculum Eg pupils get accustomed to hierarchy+competition, etc=schooling prepares Wc pupils for their role as exploited workers=reproducing class inequality

Willis-WC pupils can resist attempts at indoctrinating them into the myth of meritocracy (qualitative methods -PO+unstructured interviews) studied the counter-school culture of 12 WC 'lads' from school-work They were scornful of conformist boys+have their own intimidating humour of these boys and girls They flouted school rules+found school boring They reject the view that WC pupils can get MC jobs Similar to the culture of male manual workers Eg both see manual work as superior The boys identify with these men This explains why the boys slotted into the jobs capitalism needs to perform