Questionaires: personality traits were linked to similar ones in employees.
Positives:
large sample (reliability and representatives)
established correlation
criticism of Althusser, Bowles and Ginits:
Dennis Wrong (1980) that people cannot be 'socialised into conformity' people do not have a degree of control over their lives.
Criticisms of Althusser, Bowles and Ginitis
neo-marxist argue against the idea of an ideological socialisation, and do not necessarily have false conciousness; they are kept in their place through low wages and low status jobs (the 'market discipline')
Criticisms of Althusser, Bowles and Ginitis
Capitalism existed for 150 years before an established education system in the UK, so correspondence theory cannot fully explain the reason for the reproduction of capitalism.
The formal curriculum does teach critical thinking. E.g. religion, ethics, sociology.
Criticisms of Althusser, Bowles and Ginitis
teachers do not necessarily carry out their allocatted ideological role. In fact, many teachers challenge the hegemony.
Constrained by structural imperative: demands by various groups and institutions.
Tripatie system: three schools
Grammar
Tech School
Secondary modern
Willis: 'learning to labour' (1977): 'Pressure from peer groups; differences across social classes'
Mac An Ghail: Parnell School (1994): 'Pressure from peer groups; differences across social classes'
Working class boys
'real boys don't try hard at school'
More interested in dossing around
Middle class boys
Try hard to succeed secretly
Publicly project an image of 'effortless achievement'
Pretend they aren't really making any effort
Smug when they do well
Parnell school (1994)
Pressure from peer groups
Differences across social classes
Working class boys
'real boys don't try hard at school'
More interested in dossing around
Working class boys referred to boys that wanted to do well
'dickhead achievers'
'queer'
'gay'
Middle class boys
Try hard to succeed secretly
Publicly project an image of 'effortless achievement'
