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The Ideological State Apparatus (ISA)
Controls people's ideas, values and beliefs. The ISA includes religion, the mass media and the education system.
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Althusser
The Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) controls peoples by ideas. Its main function is to maintain, legitimate and reproduce, generation by generation class inequalities in wealth and power.
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Bowles and Gintis (1975)
Education serves to reproduce the capitalist relations of production with appropraite skills.
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Willis (1976)
Pupil subcultures: lads and ear'oles.
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The Repressive State Apparatus (RSA)
When necessary to protect capitalist interests, the state uses force to repress the working class via the police, courts and army.
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The hidden curriculum
The correspondence principle operates through the hidden curriculum - all the 'lessons' that are learnt in school without being directly taught. Through the everyday wokrings of the school, pupils accept hierarcy, competition, alienation etc.
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The counter-school culture
The lads formed a distinct counter-cultures that was opposed to the school. Flouted school's rules; for the lads, such acts of defiance were ways of resisting the school's authority.
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Postmodernists
Argues that Marxism is out of date. The correspondence principle no longer operates or is at the very least too simplistic a view. Class dividiosn are no longer imporratn in a post-Fordists economy which is diverse and fragmented.
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Feminists
Schools reproduce patriarchy as well as capitalism. McRobbie points out that females were absent from Willis' study.
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Marxists disagree among themselves
How reproduction and legitimation take place. Bowles and Gintis take a deterministic view and assume pupils passively accept. Willis rejects this and shows how pupils may resist school and still end up in working class jobs.
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Romanticisation
Willis criticised for romanticising the 'lads', presenting them as working-class heroes depites their anti-school behaviour and sexist attitudes. His study of only 12 boys in 1 school likely to be unrepresentative.
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Althusser

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The Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) controls peoples by ideas. Its main function is to maintain, legitimate and reproduce, generation by generation class inequalities in wealth and power.

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Bowles and Gintis (1975)

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Willis (1976)

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The Repressive State Apparatus (RSA)

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