All Interactionist Education Studies

Question 1

Who said teachers have a view of an ideal pupil?

Answer 1

Becker

Question 2

Name 2 traits of the ideal pupil

Answer 2

Does work on time, Gets good grades

Question 3

What will the teacher do when the ideal pupil asks a question?

Answer 3

Give them a more developed answer

Question 4

What type of status does Becker say teachers are able to give?

Answer 4

Master status

Question 5

Which people in society are more able to give master status labels?

Answer 5

People with authority

Question 6

What is a master status?

Answer 6

A label that overrides all other characteristics of someone

Question 7

What happens to someone with a master status over time?

Answer 7

They become a self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 8

What does it mean to be a self-fulfiling prophecy?

Answer 8

People with a master status now fully embody that label

Question 9

What did Rosenthal and Jacobson do with names of students who did an exam?

Answer 9

They picked their names randomly

Question 10

What did Rosenthal and Jacobson tell the students’ teachers to say to the selected students?

Answer 10

That they were high achievers

Question 11

What was result of the positive labelling experienced by the students in Rosenthal and Jacobson’s study a year later?

Answer 11

They did better in their exams

Question 12

What expectations did Gillborn say teachers had for black pupils?

Answer 12

Racialised expectations

Question 13

How did teachers treat black students in Gillborn’s study?

Answer 13

Treated them more harshly

Question 14

In Gillborn’s study, how did black students respond to the harsh treatment?

Answer 14

They formed anti-school subcultures

Question 15

What concept did Gillborn and Youdell create?

Answer 15

Educational triage

Question 16

What does the educational triage say about school’s priorities?

Answer 16

They only focus on students who will get a C or above

Question 17

What is the impact of the educational triage for Black students?

Answer 17

They will be given less support to do well in exams if they get grades below a C

Question 18

What did Sewell say classify the stereotype teachers had towards black students as?

Answer 18

Black machismo

Question 19

What does the Black machismo say?

Answer 19

Teachers are more likely to see black students as threatening

Question 20

According to Sewell, how did rebels respond to the Black machismo label?

Answer 20

They formed anti-school subcultures

Question 21

According to Sewell, how did conformists respond to the Black machismo label?

Answer 21

They accepted the stereotype and tried to keep doing well in school

Question 22

What did Fuller find with black girls in her study?

Answer 22

They rejected negative labelling

Question 23

What did the black girls in Fuller’s study do rather than become self-fulfilling prophecies?

Answer 23

They worked hard to do well in school

Question 24

Which Interactionist said students could be labelled as multiple failures?

Answer 24

Hargreaves

Question 25

Name 2 labels within the overall multiple failures label

Answer 25

Going to a bad school, being a bad student

Question 26

According to Hargreaves, why did the students label as multiple failures create anti-school subcultures?

Answer 26

To fight back against the negative labelling

Question 27

According to Hargreaves, How did deviant pupils gain status?

Answer 27

They acted deviant in their anti-school subculture to gain status

Question 28

What did Dunne and Gazeley find with how teachers treated working class failure?

Answer 28

They normalised it

Question 29

What did it mean for working class pupils if their failure was normalised?

Answer 29

They would not be given help to do well in school

Question 30

Which Interactionist found girls are more organised with their school work?

Answer 30

Mitsos and Brown

Question 31

What did Mitsos and Brown say about teacher treatment of boys?

Answer 31

They are less strict with boys

Question 32

According to Mitsos and Brown, what is a result of teachers being less strict with boys?

Answer 32

They are more likely to disrupt lessons

Question 33

What type of subculture do boys join if they disrupt lessons often due to less strict treatment from teachers?

Answer 33

Anti-school subcultures