All Interactionist Education Studies Flashcards
Who said teachers have a view of an ideal pupil?
Becker
Name 2 traits of the ideal pupil
Does work on time, Gets good grades
What will the teacher do when the ideal pupil asks a question?
Give them a more developed answer
What type of status does Becker say teachers are able to give?
Master status
Which people in society are more able to give master status labels?
People with authority
What is a master status?
A label that overrides all other characteristics of someone
What happens to someone with a master status over time?
They become a self-fulfilling prophecy
What does it mean to be a self-fulfiling prophecy?
People with a master status now fully embody that label
What did Rosenthal and Jacobson do with names of students who did an exam?
They picked their names randomly
What did Rosenthal and Jacobson tell the students’ teachers to say to the selected students?
That they were high achievers
What was result of the positive labelling experienced by the students in Rosenthal and Jacobson’s study a year later?
They did better in their exams
What expectations did Gillborn say teachers had for black pupils?
Racialised expectations
How did teachers treat black students in Gillborn’s study?
Treated them more harshly
In Gillborn’s study, how did black students respond to the harsh treatment?
They formed anti-school subcultures
What concept did Gillborn and Youdell create?
Educational triage
What does the educational triage say about school’s priorities?
They only focus on students who will get a C or above
What is the impact of the educational triage for Black students?
They will be given less support to do well in exams if they get grades below a C
What did Sewell say classify the stereotype teachers had towards black students as?
Black machismo
What does the Black machismo say?
Teachers are more likely to see black students as threatening
According to Sewell, how did rebels respond to the Black machismo label?
They formed anti-school subcultures
According to Sewell, how did conformists respond to the Black machismo label?
They accepted the stereotype and tried to keep doing well in school
What did Fuller find with black girls in her study?
They rejected negative labelling
What did the black girls in Fuller’s study do rather than become self-fulfilling prophecies?
They worked hard to do well in school
Which Interactionist said students could be labelled as multiple failures?
Hargreaves
Name 2 labels within the overall multiple failures label
Going to a bad school, being a bad student
According to Hargreaves, why did the students label as multiple failures create anti-school subcultures?
To fight back against the negative labelling
According to Hargreaves, How did deviant pupils gain status?
They acted deviant in their anti-school subculture to gain status
What did Dunne and Gazeley find with how teachers treated working class failure?
They normalised it
What did it mean for working class pupils if their failure was normalised?
They would not be given help to do well in school
Which Interactionist found girls are more organised with their school work?
Mitsos and Brown
What did Mitsos and Brown say about teacher treatment of boys?
They are less strict with boys
According to Mitsos and Brown, what is a result of teachers being less strict with boys?
They are more likely to disrupt lessons
What type of subculture do boys join if they disrupt lessons often due to less strict treatment from teachers?
Anti-school subcultures
