Neo-Marxism in Sociology of Education: Bowles andGintis’s Correspondence Theory and Their Revisionist Thinking(PDF)
《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2014年06期
- Page:
- 90-97
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- Title:
- Neo-Marxism in Sociology of Education: Bowles andGintis’s Correspondence Theory and Their Revisionist Thinking
- Author(s):
- HE Xiao-xing
- Keywords:
- neo-Marxism; correspondence theory; social reproduction; revision; hidden curriculum
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- Abstract:
- Material production in capitalist system is not only a technological process but also a social process. Similarly, the education and training of labor force in school is also a social process. Social relations embedded into these two social processes could and should be compared to each other. Without such comparison, we cannot reach a deep understanding of school education. Correspondence theory is a kind of comparison theory. In this theory, its founders, Bowles and Gintis, try to make sense of school education in America in the framework of correspondence between education and society. They elaborate the perspective of social reproduction for the first time and the key notion of hidden curriculum in particular. Correspondence theory has a far-reaching influence on educational theories and research.
Last Update: 2014-12-31