SOCIOLOGY ED TOPIC 6

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2 elements/apparatuses that serve to keep bourgeiosie in power according to Althusser?
1.Repressive state-maintain rule by force or threat of it by police, courts & army, repress w/c 2.Ideological state-maintain rule by controlling peoples ideas/values through religion, mass media & ed system
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2 important functions ed system performs as an Ideological State Apparatus?
1.Reproduces class inequality by transmitting it from generation to generation, failing each successive generation of w/c 2.Legitimates class inequality by producing ideologies that disguise true cause. Function of ideology =persuade workers to accep
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Bowles & Gintis - overview?
Argue capitalism requires workforce with attitude/behaviour & personality type suited to role as alienated/exploited workers. Role of ed to reproduce an obedient workforce
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Bowles & Gintis - Schooling in capitalist America?
Study of 237 NY high school students, schools reward kind of traits that make a submissive, compliant worker EG Students who showed independence/creativity got l/grades, those obedient got higher. Conclude ed doesnt foster personal devel but stunts i
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Methods Link - Using Questionnaires?
B&G- Compared questionnaire results with grade averages/exam scores. Found correlation. Allowed large sample to be studied/correlation. But questionnaires about attitudes may lack depth/students may misunderstand questions
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Correspondence principle & hidden curriculum?
B&G=close parallels between schooling/work in capitalist society. Both are hierarchies. Schooling takes place in 'long shadow of work'. Argue correspondence principle operates via hidden curric-pupils get accustomed to accepting hierarchy
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Myth of meritocracy, legitimation of class inequality?
Capitalist based on equal, danger poor will feel it undeserved/unfair=rebel against system. B&G see ed system as 'giant myth making machine'/ Ed promotes myth. Argue meritocracy doesnt exist
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Evidence of myth of meritocracy, legitimation of class inequality?
Shows main factor determining whether or not someone has high income is family & class background, not ability/ed achievement. By disguising this, MoM justifies privileges of h/c, seem gained via fair competition. Persuade w/c to accept as legit
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Willis - Learning to Labour?
Capitalism cant function w/o workforce willing to accept exploitation. B&G see ed as straight forward process of MoM. Willis shows w/c can resist such attempts to indoctrinate them. Combines interactionist approach focusing on meanings pupils give
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Willis' study?
Used qual methods=participant observation/unstructured interviews, group of 12 w/c boys. Lads form distinctive counter culture opposed to school. Scornful of conformist boys. Find school boring & flout rule/values. Reject schools merit ideol
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2 examples linking lads counter culture of resistance to slotting into inferior jobs with l/skill, l/pay etc?
1.Having been accustomed to boredom & finding ways to amuse selves in school, dont expect satisfaction from work=can cope with tedium 2.Acts of rebellion guarantee they'll end up in unskilled jobs by ensuring failure
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Irony of Willis' study?
By helping them resist schools ideology, lads counter culture ensures they're destined for unskilled work capitalism needs someone to perform
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Methods Link - Group Interviews?
Unstruct interviews to uncover counter school cult. Allowed lads to talk freely in own words. Gave insight but are unreliable-cant be exactly repeated. Meaning of what is said is so open to researchers own bias that results may be of little value
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Post fordism & post modernism?
B&G correspondence principle. Capitalism requires large no of l/skilled workers to accept alienation etc=Fordism. Mass ed system as preparing pupils for this. PM say outdated=eco now based on 'flex specialisation'. Post fordist as requires skilled
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Post modernists of post fordism?
PF calls for different ed system. Instead of preparing pupils to be l/skilled,l/paid/obedient, must encourage self motivation/creativity/lifelong training. Ed become more diverse/responsive to individuals needs. PM=Ed reproduces diversity not inequal
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Post modernists on Marxist approaches?
Criticise B&G's correspondence principle as todays Post Fordism requires schools to reproduce very different kind of labour force from one described by marxists. Ed now reproduces diversity not inequality
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Marxists on Marxist approaches?
B&G take deterministic view/assume pupils have no free will & passively accept indoctrination. Fails to explain why pupils ever reject schools values. Willis rejects this view. Shows how pupils may resist school & yet how this still leads to w/c jobs
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Criticisms of Willis?
Argue his account of lads romanticises them, portraying them as w/c heroes despite anti social behaviour. Small scale of 12 = unrepresentative
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Feminists on Marxist approaches?
Madeline MacDonald= B&G ignore schools reproduce not only capitalism but patriarchy
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Counter argument of Willis?
Stimulated great deal of research into how education reproduces/legitimates other inequalities EG Paul Connolly explains how education reproduces both ethnic & gender inequalities
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