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We have already seen that in the work of Talcott Parsons and Louis Althusser relations between the economy and the education system play a significant role in their contribution to educational theory. The work of Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, collected together in their book Schooling in Capitalist America, is concerned explicitly with the development of a ‘political economy’ of education in capitalist societies. This chapter examines the central theoretical arguments in Bowles and Gintis’ attempt to establish the relations between the economy and the educational system.
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See Tony Cutler’s review of Braverman in his paper ‘The romance of “labour”’, Economy and Society, 7:1 (Feb. 1978).
Bowles, Gintis and Meyer, ‘Education, IQ, and the legitimation of the social division of labor’, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, xx (1975–6) 233–64.
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Demaine, J. (1981). The ‘Political Economy’ of Education in the work of Bowles and Gintis. In: Contemporary Theories in the Sociology of Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16519-3_6
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