Marxist views

• marxists argue that society is based on conflict
• bourgeosie profit by exploiting the labour of the working class
• class consiouness means the working class realised the inequality in society and start a commuinst revoulation
• Athusser (1971): ideological and repressive state apparatus are the two ways capitalists hold there power in society
• educations reproduces class inequalities through generation and generation by failing each successive generation of WC
• Education legitmises class inequalities through ideologies (beliefs an ideas) that disguise its true cause as ideology persuades workers to accept inequality is inevitable as they deserve that position in society.
• The hidden cirriculum are unwritten rules, norms and values to which students are expected to conform while in school.