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Marxist theory on social class and education - Coggle Diagram
Marxist theory on social class and education
Vocational education
See it as a second-rate education for those from w/c backgrounds and see education as a way to produce workers to support the profit making society.
Middle-class enjoy academic education leading to well paid positions of power in society.
Marxists see education as a way to prevent revolution and maintain capitalism in society.
upper class - bourgeouise
working class - proleteriat
See society as a value consensus and a place where capitalists are exploited
Paul Willis argues that both marxist and functionalist view on education are deterministic (shaped by the education system).
Paul Willis study on a group of 12 w/c boys called the 'lads' who rejected school and presented themselves as superior. He found that these children choose to fail school as a rejection of capitalism.
Bourdieu
Habitus- a set of ideas possesed by a social class where people are socialised and influenced by their cultural tastes and choices
Cultural Capital- the attitudes, values and behaviour middle-class and upper class an advantage in the education system
Althusser
Ideological state persuades workers to accept that inequality is inevitable and that the education system fails w/c pupils
Bowles and Gintis
Argue that there are close parallels between school and work in a capitalist society. Both have hierarchies with headteachers and bosses at top known as the correspondence principle.
Believe that the role of the education system is to produce an obedient workforce that will accept society as inevitable.
There study found that schools show the personality traits of a submissive, compliant worker and helps produce obedient workers capitalism needs.
Hidden curriculum - lessons taught in school without being directly taught