... training or job satisfaction. The students who did everything that was expected of them were labelled " the earoles". Compared to Bowles and Gintis, Willies investigation was carried out very differently. His study was a small-scale view; it was micro and therefore was an interpretivist's view of society rather than that of Bowles and Gintis, which was a structuralist's view of society. It was macro. For example when studying the education system Bowles and Gintis would look at education as a whole and study things like social class and origin of background from this they would draw up a conclusion to why students behave as they do and why they end up in certain jobs. Whereas Willies actually went to the main source of the study where everything was going on, the foundations. He went into the classroom and conducted his research there. Willis research is an example of an eclectic ...

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