AQA GCSE Sociology · 8192
Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: Processes Within SchoolsWillis’s explanation is Marxist because it connects education with capitalism and class reproduction. His attention to pupils’ interactions and meanings also draws on an interactionist approach. Unlike the Marxist explanation associated with Bowles and Gintis, which stresses schools producing obedient workers, Willis emphasised pupils’ active resistance.
- Revise: Schooling in Capitalist America by Bowles and Gintis
The continuation of social class inequalities from one generation to the next.