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Question 1

ACRONYM

Answer 1

Mason Greenwood- Mac An Ghail, Pro school subculture
Just- Jackson, ladettes
Stop- Sewell, Black Machismo
Beating- Ball, students are ‘warmed up’ or ‘warmed down’
Women- Willis, anti school subculture study
Please- Peter wood, eight ways of adapting to school

Question 2

Mac An Ghail

Answer 2

2 types of pro school subcultures

• Academic achievers, who were mostly from skilled manual working class backgrounds and sought to achieve academic success by focusing on traditional academic subjects such as Maths and English
• The New Enterprises, who were typically from working class backgrounds and rejected the traditional academic curriculum, which they saw as a waste of time, but were motivated to study subjects such as business and computing, and were able to achieve upward mobility by exploiting school industry links.

Question 3

Ball

Answer 3

Ball found that top-stream students were ‘warmed up’ by encouragement to achieve highly.
- Lower stream students were ‘cooled down’ and encouraged to follow lower status vocational course, this lead to lower academic success

Question 4

Sewell

Answer 4

found that black identities were reinforced as young black students coped with racist teacher stereotypes of ‘black machismo’ by forming peer group-related, he also found that many aspects of the macho black identity of young Afro-Caribbean’s were derived from the media.

Question 5

Jackson

Answer 5

• 13 - 14 year old boys & girls were studied, found ladette behaviour in Schools where girls adopted boisterous culture & confrontational anti-school activity.

Question 6

Peter Woods, 8 ways of adapting to school

Answer 6

• Ingratiation- pupils who are eager to please teachers and have favourable attitudes towards school.
• Compliance- pupils who accept school rules and discipline, and see school as a useful way to gain qualifications, but don’t have a wholly positive or negative attitude towards school
• Opportunism- pupils who fluctuate between seeking approval of teachers and from their peer groups
• Ritualism- Pupils who go through the motions of attending school but without great engagement or enthusiasm
• Retreatism- pupils who are indifferent to school values and exam success, messing about in class and daydreaming are commo, but they don’t want to challenge schools authority
• Colonization- pupils who try to get away with as much as possible, students express hostility to the school but will still try and avoid getting into trouble
• Intransigence- troublemakers who are indifferent to school and who aren’t that bothered about conformity
• ## Rebellion- the goals of schools are rejected and pupils devote their efforts to achieving deviant goals

Question 7

PERCY

Answer 7

P- anti school subcultures
E- Racism
R- Sewell, anti school subculture
C- Mac and Ghail- academic achievers new enterprises

P- school have favourites
E- top set get the best teachers, equipment etc
R- Ball, top set students are warmed up, whereas lower sets were ‘cooled down’
C- Gilborn and Youdell, those who succeed get lower attention

P- anti school subculture
E- white working class boys
R- Willis, lads, participant observation
C- Willis ‘went native’ got too involved had a bias.