education key sociologist

Question 1

Who argues that education performs role allocation?

Answer 1

Davis and Moore

Question 2

Who argues that education/school acts as a bridge between home and wider society?

Answer 2

Parsons

Question 3

Who argues that education performs secondary socialisation?

Answer 3

Durkheim

Question 4

Who argues education is part of the ideological state apparatus?

Answer 4

Althusser

Question 5

Who argues that the education system creates a passive and subservient workforce through correspondence theory

Answer 5

Bowels and Gintis

Question 6

Who argues that the education system is based on cultural capital?

Answer 6

Bordeui

Question 7

Who does the case study about learning to labour?

Answer 7

Willis

Question 8

Who argues that the education system reinforces patriarchy through books and textbooks?

Answer 8

Kelley

Question 9

Who argues that girls are made to feel uncomfortable in certain spaces where boys ‘colonise the space’ such as computing

Answer 9

Colley

Question 10

Who argues that state education is unresponsive and to the needs of pail and parents whereas private education have the high ethos and keep high standards

Answer 10

Chub and Moe

Question 11

who argued that middle class parents are skilled choosers and lower class parents are disconnected choosers

Answer 11

Ball

Question 12

What were the two main aims of the 1988 reform act and what were the 5 policies

Answer 12

1. Parentocracy
2. Marketisation

• league tables
• national curriculum
• OFSTED
• Formula funding
• Open enrolment and selection

Question 13

Who argued that the lower classes are materially deprived and poverty can negatively affect education

Answer 13

Gibson and Asthana

Question 14

Who spoke about elaborated and restricted speech codes

Answer 14

Bernstein

Question 15

Who argued that the underclass are broken families that have poor socialisation and the parents have a lack of interest in their childrens education

Answer 15

Phillips

Question 16

Who spoke about delayed and immediate gratification

Answer 16

Sugarman

Question 17

Who found that low income is related to low cognitive reasoning skills in children

Answer 17

Fenstein

Question 18

Who argued that tuition fees in higher education put working class children off education due to a fear of debt

Answer 18

Connor

Question 19

Who argued that the cultural capital of middle class mothers gave their children and an advanatge

Answer 19

Reay

Question 20

Who spoke about labelling in schools and the ideal pupil

Answer 20

Becker

Question 21

Who found that in school, teachers saw asian pupils as a problem to be ignored and afro Caribbean boys as aggressive and disruptive?

Answer 21

Wright

Question 22

Who found that teachers saw afro carribean boys as a threat

Answer 22

Gilbert

Question 23

Who argued that the absence of fathers may be a reason for lower educational achievement in black boys

Answer 23

Tony sewell

Question 24

Who argued that the British curriculum could disadvantage ethnic minorities

Answer 24

Coard

Question 25

Who argued that afro carribean boys are over-represented in lower sets in schools

Answer 25

Gilborn

Question 26

Who found that pakistan and Bangladesh children felt excluded in schools due to institutional racism

Answer 26

Crozier

Question 27

Who argued that black families are more likely to be headed by a lone mother which causes inadequate parenting?

Answer 27

Moynihan

Question 28

Who found that ethnic minorities aspire to go to university more than white pupils

Answer 28

Mculloch

Question 29

Who found that Indian parents have more control over their kids and that their kids are better behaved

Answer 29

Strand

Question 30

Who spoke about chinese tiger mums

Answer 30

Francis and Archer

Question 31

Who found that there are poorer levels of behaviour and discipline in white pupils than ethnic minorities

Answer 31

Lupton

Question 32

Who argued that there is a bedroom culture for girls

Answer 32

McRobbie

Question 33

Who argued that girls are socialised into a conformist and quiet character

Answer 33

Edward and Davis

Question 34

Who argued that male peer groups saw working hard as unmasculine

Answer 34

Mac and Ghail

Question 35

Who said that boys dominate the classroom in certain subjects, lowering girls self esteem

Answer 35

Stanworth

Question 36

Who said teachers gave priority to boys and what girls said was less important

Answer 36

Spender

Question 37

Who argued there is a sexual double standard between girls and boys at school

Answer 37

Lee

Question 38

Who argued there is a genderquake and women are wanting to go into the workplace

Answer 38

Wilkinson

Question 39

Who argues that womens ambitions have risen due to more employment opportunities

Answer 39

Francis and Skelton

Question 40

Who did the study into working class girls and their sexualised hyper-feminine identity

Answer 40

Louise Archer

Question 41

Who argued that gendered toys affect girls perceptions of what subjects they should be taking

Answer 41

Francis

Question 42

Who argued that boys are more lilley to take tech and science as it is more difficult and of higher status

Answer 42

Skelton

Question 43

Who said that when girls took sport they were labelled butch or lesbian

Answer 43

Paetcher

Question 44

Who argues that there is a big influence from family and peers in gender stereotyping and subject choice

Answer 44

Colley

Question 45

Who argued that girls were less likely to take science as teaching and textbooks reflected males and boys dominated class discussions

Answer 45

Kelley