Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Marxist perspective
- Ruling class - Bourgeoise/capitalist
- Subject class - Proletariate/workers
- class reproduces itself
- ECONOMY
- Education
- Family
- Religon
- Legal
- Mass Media
- SUPER STRUCTURE (CONTROLS MOST THINGS)
- HIDDEN CURRICULUM
- What children learn from their experience of schooling rather than what they learn from formal lessons
- E.G.
- Punctuality
- Learning when to speak
- Dress code
- knowing their place
- Attendence
- Gender roles
- NEGATIVES
- obedience to authority
- acceptance of inequality
- Gender roles
- powerlessness
- conditioning to boredom
- some children resist 'indoctrination' (brain washing)
- E.G.
- WILLS study of 12 working class 'lads'
- the lads had formed a counter school culture
- tried to break school rules and not conform to the hidden curriculum
- Bowles and Gintis
- The education system provides capitalists with a docile workforce
- Achieved through the hidden curriculum
- Subservient workforce
- treated like a servant
- Encourages acceptance of hierarchy
- fragmentation of the curriculum
- curriculum is broken into several parts
- close parallels between schooling and work in a capitalist society
- called the corrospondence principle
- MERITOCRACY IS A MYTH
- class background is the most important factor
- 'old school tie'
- people are born into their status, that doesn't change
- social classes reproduce themselves
- A child's behaviour in school affects their setting/grouping