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Marxist Perspective on Education
Marxist’s believe that the powerful and dominant class
(capitalists) control the agencies of socialisation, including
schools
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Whether intentionally or
unintentionally, education often also helps to
shape beliefs and moral values
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•Marxist’s feel education is used is a more effective way of
controlling society than physical force as it is not as
noticeable to the society that they are being conditioned

•This is more commonly known as false consciousness
•They see it as a way to get the working class used to being
rewarded when doing good, this is because they use the rule
of meritocracy
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Bowles and Gintis (1976)
Based on a study carried out Bowles and Gintis
discovered the following:
• Argued that education plays a huge part in the reproduction
of labour power
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• They claim that the hidden curriculum promotes an
acceptance of hierarchy
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“Learning is based upon the ‘jug and mug’
principle
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Students are motivated by external rewards such as
employment
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On our intelligence quotient (IQ) Bowles and Gintis
argue that it’s not only about your educational
attainment but also the family background
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•Follow instructions without
question, as you would in the
workplace with your boss
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•Being punctual as your time doesn’t
belong to you it belongs to your teacher
as it would your boss
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•Look the same as your peers, you
should be dressed in uniform, there
are rules on hairstyles, jewellery
etc
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• Education has replaced religion as the main ideological state
apparatus
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This includes the rules of
good behaviour, skills and knowledge needed by capitalism
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• Explored the relationship between the culture in the
family, the school and that of the acquired ruling class
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“A child from a middle-class or wealthy
background soaks ‘cultural capital’ from both
home and the school
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Paul Willis (1977)
• Disagreed with some original Marxist views on
education, he developed his own Neo- Marxist
approach
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• During the 1970’s there was a lot of media attention on the
misbehaviour of students in inner-city schools
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• Willis was aiming to find out why working class children attained
working class jobs
• The boys resented school, trying to avoid or disrupt lessons
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Willis found
that they’d developed their own anti-school subculture
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Catalogue, EBSCOhost, viewed 1 October 2015

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