AQA GCSE Sociology · 8192

Learning to Labour by Willis

What you need to know

Analyze Paul Willis's Marxist study on the existence of conflict and counter-culture within the education system.
Understand how working-class boys' rejection of school values prepares them for unskilled manual labour.
Evaluate Willis's argument that education is not a uniformly successful agency of socialization and can have unintended consequences for capitalism.