The role of education: Marxism (2)
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- The role of education: Marxism (2)
- A social control, encouraging young people to conform and accept their social positions
- Evaluation
- Exaggerates the extent to which schools provide a willing and qualifies workforce
- Assumes young people have no real ability to make choices or control over what happened to them
- Working-class, very successfuleducation and work
- Doesn't consider factors like gender and ethnicity affecting educational achievement
- Functionalists'education is meritocraric'
- Focuses on negative aspects
- Not meritocratic
- Sociologists
- Bowles + Gintis 'school mirrors the workplace' (the correspondence principle'
- Hidden curriculum teaches the expectations of society and prepares them
- Prepares young people for capitalist society
- Children are socialised into their respective class position
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