1.6 Gender (Pt 2) (Studies)

Question 1

Identity, Class and Girls Achievement

Answer 1

2013: 40.6% of girls eligible for FSM achieve 5 A*-C GCSEs. (2/3 of girls not eligible for FSM)

Archer et al (Symbolic Capital, HHFI, Boyfriends, Being ‘loud’, WC Dilemma)
Bourdieu (Symbolic Violence)
Evans (Successful WC Girls)
Skeggs (Successful WC Girls)

Question 2

Boys and Achievement

Answer 2

DCSF (Boys and Literacy)

Mitsos and Brown (Globalisation)

Sewell (Feminisation of Education)

14% / 42% (Shortage of male primary school teachers)

Francis (Are more needed)
Read (Are more needed?)

Epstein (‘Laddish’ Subcultures)
Francis (Laddish Subcultures)

Ringrose (Moral Panic about Boys)
Osler (Moral Panic about Girls)

Question 3

Subject Choice

Answer 3

Soc 75, Drama 69, French 69, Institute of Physics

Norman, Byrne, Murphy and Elwood (Gender Role Socialisation)

Kelly, Colley (Gendered subject images)

Leonard (Single Sex Schooling)

Paechter, Dewar (Gender Identity and Peer Pressure)

Fuller (Vocation)

Question 4

Sexual and Gender Identities

Answer 4

Connell: ‘hegemonic masculinity’

Lees (Double Standards)

Connell, Lees, Paechter, Parker (Verbal Abuse)

Mac an Ghaill (Male Gaze)

Epstein and Willis, Mac an Ghall, Mac an Ghaill and Redman (Male Peer Groups)

Ringrose (Female Peer Groups)

Askew and Ross (Teachers and Discipline)