Marxism

• Role of education

  Prevent revolution

  Maintain capitalism
• Althusser


  Repressive state apparatus- force/threat (police)

  Ideological state apparatus- pass down ruling class ideas (education)

  Schools transmit that capitalism is fair + prepares for workforce

  Reproduces inequality by failing wc pupils
• Bowles and Gintis


  Correspondance theory (classroom and workplace - social reproduction)

  > hierarchy, strict, uniform, hours, competition

  Compliant + submissive workforce

  Hidden curriculum - ISA

  Meritocracy is a myth
• Bourdieu


  Cultural capital - dominant class is the basis for knowledge

  The closer students are to Cc the more likely they are to succeed

  eg teachers use bourgeoisie speech instead of common parlance
• Boudon 


  Cost of persistence:

  Financial - cost of uni

  Social - reliance on friends, social pressure not to persue if friends haven’t
• Willis (Neo-marxist)


  Counter school culture- 12 wc boys

  eg avoided work, misbehaved, sexist and racist, don’t care, got manual jobs
• Alienation


  Isolation from others and finished product
• False class consciousness


  Not aware of exploitation being unfair, accept it