criticisms

• Postmodernists 


  -criticise Bowles & Gintis correspondence principle

  -outdated

  -today's economy requires schools to produce very different kind of labour force

  -education now produces diversity, not inequality
• Marxists disagree about how reproduction & legitimation of inequality takes place


  -Bowles & Gintis = deterministic > public passively accept indoctrination

  -Willis = pupils can resist school, still leads them into working class
• Critics of Willis


  -he romanticises their sexist & anti-social behaviour

  -12 boys isn't representative of population
• 'class first' approach 


  -ignore other kinds of equality

  -class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality & interactions between for full understanding