Education and Social Mobility
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- Education and Social Mobility
- Marxist
- Louis Althusser - Reproduction of labour power theory
- 2. The informal hidden curriculum reproduces ruling class ideology necessary for a docile and submissive workplace
- 1. The formal school curriculum reproduces the skills necessary for a technically efficient labour force of workers
- Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis: Correspondence theory
- Learning to accept and obey a hierarchy of authority
- Research on 227 students in a New York high school
- Learning to find satisfaction in external rewards rather than work itself
- Learning to believe that social inequality is just and legitimate
- Powell - Social Closure strategies (2002)
- Social mobility is restricted because certain occupational groups can close off entry to 'outsiders' - those lower down the social scale
- The well-connected and influential social classes can ensure that their offspring are recruited into high-level professional occupations
- Related to high levels of social capital
- Social capital = the networks and connections built through membership of elite private schools
- Louis Althusser - Reproduction of labour power theory
- Functionalist
- Talcott Parsons - Transition theory
- This miniature society provides the training ground in which children can experience society beyond the family
- This eases the transition from childhood to adulthood
- Saw the classroom as a "microcosm of society"
- This miniature society provides the training ground in which children can experience society beyond the family
- Davis & Moore - Role allocation theory (1945)
- People's class position is a fair reflection of their talents
- Educational qualifications function to allocate individuals to an occupational role that suits their abilities
- Peter Saunders - Life choices
- If societies provide the same opportunities to their members through a meritocratic schooling system, then educational success or failure results from the different choices people make
- This does not guarantee that such children will indefinitely be upwardly mobile, but it usually guards against downward mobility
- Talcott Parsons - Transition theory
- Marxist
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