The Marxist perspective of education

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What is the Capitalist Class? (Bourgeoisie)

These are the minority class. They are employers who own the means of productions.

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What is the Working class? (Proletariat)

Forced to sell their labor power to the capitalist since they own no means of production

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What do Marxists see as the main function of education?

Functioning to prevent revolution and maintain capitalism

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What is the Ideological State Apparatus? (ISA)

Maintain the rule of the Bourgeoisie by controlling people's ideas, values and beliefs.

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What is the Repressive State Apparatus? (RSA)

Maintain the rule of the bourgeoisie by force or the threat of it

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According to Althusser, which two functions dos education perform?

reproduces class inequality by transmitting it from generation to next, by failing each successive generation of working class pupils. Legitimizing class inequality by producing ideologies that disguise its true cause

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According to Bowles and Gintis, what is the role of the education system?

To reproduce an obedient workforce that will accept inequality as inevitable

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Outline the findings of Bowes and Gintis study

They conclude that schools reward precisely the kind of personality traits that make for a submissive, compliant worker

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Give three examples of the correspondence principle

Both workplaces, hierarchy and lack of control

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What is the Working class? (Proletariat)

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Forced to sell their labor power to the capitalist since they own no means of production

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