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Within this essay, I will be examining the view that education re-creates the class system. Theories such as Marxism, Internationalism and feminism, would agree with each other in
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. . .S o c I o l o g y. . . Homework-exam question HITIKSHA PATEL Within this essay, I will be examining the view that education re-creates the class system. Theories such as Marxism, Internationalism and feminism, would agree with each other in saying that the education system favours the working class, due to ideologies, discrimination, domination and social control. Marxists Bowles and Gintis' 'myth of education' is a complete attack on the functionalist's concept of meritocracy. Bowles and Gintis (1976) argued that the meritocratic idea that education offers everybody an equal chance is in fact a myth or a story that all of us jus blindly believe. They believe that the education system works against the ideas of the working classes. In their 'correspondence theory' they argued that there was a correspondence between social relationships in the classroom and the work place. By this, they meant that the hierarchies, certificates,...
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