Class + DA: Internal Flashcards
What are the ideas around labelling and self-fulfilling prophecies?
- Becker believed that labels and characteristics placed on students based on class impact their educational achievement
What sociologists studied labelling and self-fulfilling prophecies
- Becker: After interviewing 60 Chicago teachers, he found that the “ideal” student had middle class values
- Rosenthal and Jacobson: After labelling a random 20% of students as “spurters”, they found it created SFP as spurters showed greater gains in IQ
What are the evaluations of labelling and self-fulfilling prophecies?
- No classroom interactions were observed
- Non spurters can be negatively impacted
- Fuller’s study
What are the ideas around setting and streaming?
Ball found that the job of a student’s father impacted their bands/sets
Which sociologist studied setting and streaming?
Ball: he banded 3 groups of students in a comprehensive school
- Band 1 = viewed as hardworking
- Band 3 = viewed as troublesome, led to deterioration of their behaviour
What are the evaluations of setting and streaming?
School sets are no longer based on our father’s occupation therefore it’s outdated
What are the ideas around marketisation policies?
Competition between schools places middle class students at a disadvantage
What are the 2 main studies of marketisation policies?
- Gilborn and Youdell: the A-C economy focuses on accepting students with higher grades
- Educational triage: students on the edge of A-C grades are given more attention, lower than D = hopeless cases
What are the evaluations of marketisation policies?
- External fear of debt is what stops them getting into the top schools
- Feminists argue gender is more influential
What are the ideas around subcultures?
The social groups that middle class students fall into places them at a disadvantage
What sociologists studied subcultures?
- Lacey: Differentiation + polarisation
- Willis: Learning to labour, 12 WC lads
What are the evaluations of subcultures?
- Fuller: self negating prophecy
- External: lack of parental interest