marxism

• BOWLES & GINTIS

  the hidden curriculum

  • lessons taught beyond formal lessons through beliefs, rules, and actions taught by people of authority, teachers and pupils
  • helps the wc conform to capitalism
  • the wc work for low paying jobs due to fear of unemployment
• BOWLES & GINTIS


  correspondence principle

  boss --> head teachers

  employees <-- pupils

  the social relations of productivity
• BOWLES & GINTIS

  • legitimation of inequality
  • myth of meritocracy as the middle class has more opportunities than the working class
• ALTHUSSER


  schools make sure working class people remain in working class jobs to help maintain the class system and its inequalities
• ALTHUSSER


  ideological state apparatus

  • control of beliefs of the working class -> through the media, religion, society and school.

  repressive state apparatus

  • the use of force to control the working class -> through the police, justice system and the military
• education vs the workplace

  rules, detentions, punishment -> conformity

  assemblies -> respect authority

  sports days -> competitions

  not talking back -> respect authority

  having to complete work that is boring -> reproduce capitalism
• PAUL WILLIS

  • used observation and unstructured interviews
  • researched WC school boys who rebelled against school due to their label. they created an anti school subculture as they disagreed with their treatment
• evaluating marxists

  • the hidden curriculum is no longer hidden
  • does capitalism want passive workers?
  • children dont always conform to labels
• social reproduction and ideological control is the school system making the lower classes believe they are destined to fail in school (self fufilling prophecy)
• What is the Formal Curriculum?

  The subjects taught in schools
• What is meant by Hidden/Informal Curriculum?

  Underlying meanings and values behind the curriculum
• What does Microcosm of Society imply about the education system?

  It closely mimics the workplace
• What characterizes a Meritocratic Society?

  Anyone can achieve if they work hard
• What is the Myth of Meritocracy according to Marxists?

  Meritocracy is not real
• What does the Correspondence Principle suggest?

  High similarity between education and workplace
• What is Hierarchy in the context of education?

  Positions of power ranked from lowest to highest
• What is meant by Subservient Workforce?

  A workforce that follows orders without hesitation
• What is the Ideological State Apparatus?

  Agencies spreading dominant ideology and justifying power
• What does Habitus refer to?

  Norms and values of a specific social class