bowles + gintis

• what research methods did Bowles and Gintis use?

  interviews and secondary data
• what perspective are Bowles and Gintis?

  marxist
• how did Bowles and Gintis feel about education?

  negative
• what did Bowles and Gintis believe about education?

  schools created the correspondence principle, this is done through the hidden curriculum
• What is the correspondence principle?

  when school mirrors the workplace and prepare children for their future roles as hardworking, docile, obedient, and motivated
• what is the hidden curriculum?

  unintended lessons learnt that aren’t a part of the curriculum but prepare you for your future job, for example respect authority
• what do bowles + gintis believe the role of education is?

  in a capitalist system to reproduce labour power.
• why do bowles + gintis reject the functionalist view of education and society?

  they argue that meritocracy is a myth. The working classes are never going to achieve as well as the middle class.