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SEE EDUCATION FUNCTIONING TO...
prevent a
revolution
and maintain
capitalism
.
ALTHUSSER - 2 ELEMENTS THAT KEEP BOURGEOISIE IN POWER
RSA -
repressive state apparatus
: include police + courts, they use force to repress the working class.
ISA -
ideological state apparatus
: include education + media, controlling peoples ideas, values + beliefs
ALTHUSSER - EDUCATION SYSTEM IS IMPORTANT ISA, PERFORMS 2 FUNCTIONS:
reproduces
class inequality
by transmitting it from one generation to another.
legitimises class inequality by producing
ideology's
that persuade workers to accept inequality, subordination is inevitable.
BOWLES + GINTIS - ROLE OF EDUCATION
reproduce obedient workforce that will accept
inequality
as inevitable.
education stunts + distorts students development.
BOWLES + GINTIS - CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE
parallels found between school and work place, school mirrors the world of work.
operates through the
hidden curriculum
, preparing working class pupils for their role of exploited workers.
BOWLES + GINTIS - MYTH OF MERITOCRACY
education system promotes 'the myth of
meritocracy'
.
main factor in determining whether someone has high income is based off
class background
not ability or educational achievement.
WILLIS
working class
pupils can resist education, by pupils resisting schools ideology's they'er destined for unskilled work that
capitalism
needs.
EVALUATION - POSTMODERNISTS
criticise
Bowles
+
Gintis
,
correspondence
principal
today's economy a different labour force then what they described.
EVALUATION - BOWLES + GINTIS
too
deterministic
, they assume pupils have no free will.
EVALUATION - FEMINISTS
Bowles
+
Gintis
ignore the fact that school produces
patriarchy
as well as capitalism.
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