Class - Internal

Question 1

Ball

Answer 1

Students are put into bands based on their primary school information. There are three bands:
1 - Able band that want to do A levels.
2 - The least co-operative band who put little value on attendance.
3 - Likely to have learning difficulties.

Question 2

Lacey

Answer 2

Pupil subcultures emerge as a result of differentiation (the process of streaming and banding) in one of four subcultures:
Differentiation
Polarisation
Pro-school
Anti-school

Question 3

Rist

Answer 3

Teachers would ability set in the (kindergarten) classroom, with the most able “tigers” sat at the front and least able “clowns” sat at the back. These were actually determined by social class, not ability

Question 4

Gillborn and Youdell

Answer 4

There is now an A* to C economy where schools are judged based on how many pupils achieve these grades. To deal with this, schools use educational triage. Pupils who are likely to pass are left to get on with it, hopeless cases are abandoned and borderline C/D grades are given extra attention

Question 5

Woods

Answer 5

There are eight adaptations of student types. One of these is ingratiation

Question 6

Becker

Answer 6

Labelling theory: Teachers give individuals a label based on their appearance and social class. Pupils tend to then adopt these labels, shaping their behaviour to fit the label. Teachers have an ideal pupil, who are normally described to be middle class and white

Question 7

Rosenthal and Jacobsen

Answer 7

Self-fulfilling prophecy: This is when a pupil changes their behaviour to fit the label that was given to them so that they fulfil it. Teachers treated pupils differently after they had been told that the students would rapidly improve over the following six months, and they did

Question 8

Hargreaves

Answer 8

There are three stages of classification/labelling:
Speculation
Elaboration
Stabilisation

Question 9

Bourdieu

Answer 9

Habitus: A social class’ way of thinking, being, and acting including their tastes and lifestyles. The middle class think that their habitus is superior and impose it on education, leaving the working class inferior

Question 10

Archer

Answer 10

Nike identities: Many pupils were conscious that society and school looked down on them. To gain self-worth/status amongst their peers, pupils created their own identities by buying certain brands such as Nike