Education sociologists Flashcards
who argued ‘selection by mortgage’? whereby marketisation favours middle class
Stephen Ball
who argued ‘new labour paradox’ - contradiction between policies to tackle inequality and increased marketisation?
Melissa Ben
who argued curriculum promotes social solidarity?
Durkheim
who argued school is a society in miniature?
Durkheim
who argued school teaches specialist skills and knowledge?
Durkheim
who argued education acts as a ‘focal socialising agency’?
Parsons
who argued school teaches universalistic values?
Parsons
who argued both schools and society operate on meritocracy?
Davis and Moore
who argued advanced societies are characterised by inequality?
Davis and Moore
who argued ‘a myth of meritocracy’?
Bowles and Gintis
who argues hidden curriculum teaches capitalist values through the correspondence principle?
Bowles and Gintis
who introduced the voucher system aiming to increase parentocracy?
Chubb and Moe
who argued society is meritocratic and socially mobile (NR)
Peter Saunders
who argued financial inequality is good as it encourages competition and rewards talent?
Peter Saunders
who argued media creates hyperreality?
Baudrillard
who argued education creates ‘toxic childhood’?
Sue Palmer
who argued functionalism has over-socialised view of pupils suggesting they passively accept society’s values?
Dennis Wrong
who argued a ‘cycle of deprivation’? what are the features?
Gibson and Asthana
- high level of sickness in overcrowded households
- no access to books
- hidden costs of education
- tuition fees
who argued the NEETS. poor parenting results in culturally deprived schildren?
Phillips
NEETS - not in education, employment or training
who argued the w/c is focused on immediate gratification whereby long-term education requires deffered gratification?
Sugarman
who argued elaborated vs restricted speech code?
Bernstein
who argued m/c are skilled choosers and w/c are disconnected choosers?
Stephen Ball
who argued material deprivation leads to cultural deprivaion? m/c have a particular habitus that helps them do better in education
Bourdieu
who argued w/c language isn’t bad it’s just different?
Labov
who argued that with w/c the problem is not language, but the attitude towards it?
Tryona and Williams
who argued teachers label based on the view of the ‘ideal pupil’? and labelling changes the behaviour and acts as a self fulfilling prophecy?
Becker
who found that those in secondary moderns formed rebellious subcultures?
Hargreaves
who argued w/c views education as a process of losing youreslf?
Archer et al
who argued that in comprehensives w/c and ethnic minoritites were put in lower streams therefore were less likely to succeed?
Gilborn and Youdell
who argued the A*-C economy where C/D sts get the most support?
Gilborn and Youdell
who argued worst schools get the least funding?
Bartlett
who argued best schools are cream-skimming?
Bartlett
who argued not all students respond to negative labelling by joining anti-school subcultures?
Woods
who argued 4 models of adaptiation to labelling? what are the ways?
Woods
- ingratiation - teacher’s pet
- ritualism - staying out of trouble
- retreatism - daydreaming
- rebellion - reject school values
who argued class subcultures are disappearing?
Mac an Ghail e.g. crisis of masculinity
who argued Pakistani & Bangladeshi are x3 likely to be the poorest and unemployed
Flaherty
who argued 15% of ethnic minorities live in overcrowded households?
Flaherty
who argued that ethnic minorities are likely to be unemployed because: they may have no right to work or lack language skills
Palmer
who argued that ethnic minorities’ low achievement arises from failure to embrace british culture? e.g. lower value placed on education
Scruton
who argued that lack of father figure results in underachievement of boys
Moynihan
who argued that no role model of male achievement = low attainment, unemployment, criminality
Murray (NR)
who argued it’s not lack of father figure, but lack of father nurturing that results in emotional difficulties for boys?
Sewell
who argued ‘tough love’ whereby the absence of father is filled by other fatherless street boys offering pervert loyalty and love?
Sewell
who argued black boys responded in 4 ways to teacher labelling them as ‘rebellious’? what are the ways?
Sewell
- conformists
- innovators
- rebels
- retreatists
who argued lack of parental support and negative attitude towards education are crucial to failure?
Lupton
who argued that respect for elderly corresponds with respect for teachers?
Lupton
who argued ethnic minority students are more likely to go to uni?
McCulloh
who argued indian parents have greater control over their children?
Strand
who found that more able black children finally did worse than their less able white peers?
Strand
who argued indian and pakistani saw education as ‘blessing’?
Basit
whose research found that ethnic minority had almost twice less chances to get invited to the job interview?
Wood et al
whose research found that companies were more encouraged to the white candidates?
Moon
who argued asian muslim women face conflict of parental expectations to marry?
Bagguley & Hussain
who found that in 1 LEA clack children were the highest achieving in primary school but did worse in GCSEs?
Gillborn & Mirza
who argued that despite of language skills, indian pupils are highest achieving?
Gillborn & Mirza
who argued that teachers mispronounce asian pupils’ names?
Wright
who outlined 3 types of teacher racism? what are the types?
Mirza
- colour blind
- liberal chauvinists
- overt racists
who argued schools discriminate through their rules and practices? e.g. forbidding wearing hijab
Tryona and Williams
who argued subjects like literature and music reflect British values?
Tryona and Williams
who argues history ignores ethnic diversity and promotes ‘little Englandism’ - recreating a mythical age of empire?
Ball
who argued that marketisation has allowed schools to select pupils the way that disadvantages ethnic minorities?
Gillborn
who argued magazines now represent women as more independent?
McRobbie
who argued that from 1970 to 1990 female priorities switched from motherhood to career
Sharpe
who argued that the rise of individualism led to independence being valued by women?
Beck & Beck-Gernshelm
who argued that w/c boys experience a crisis of masculinty?
Mac an Ghaill
who argued that the fact that boys have restricted speech code and it therefore limits their job opportunities?
Reay
who argued w/c girls may see motherhood as their only option?
Biggart
who argued teachers see boys as disruptive and tell them off instead of teaching?
Swann & Graddol
who argued teachers perceive typical boy & girl differenly - boys get told off quicker
Abraham
who argued schools don’t nurture masculine traits e.g. leadership
Sewell
who argued black girls form pro-school subcultures in response to labelling?
Fuller
who argued girls benefit from coursework due to their consistency?
Mitsos & Browne
which survey found that almost 1/2 of boys told that male teacher would make them work harder?
Yougov
who found 2/3 of 7-8y.o. thought that gender of the teacher isn’t important?
Francis
who argued boys overestimate their ability?
Barber
who argued differences in child socialisation generate masculine and feminine cultural identities? (starts with parents treating boys and girls differently and reinforces through media and peers)
Sharpe
who argued playing with toys that encourage their masculine/feminine traits? e.g. lego is for boys, dolls are for girls
Francis
who argued children see particular tasks as certain gender’s territory or domain = choose subjects that fall into their domain?
Browne & Ross
whob argued schoolgirls aren’t passive in their socialisation and choose subects linking to both: labour market and domestic future?
Riddell
who argued feminism has changed the way that girls perceive themselves - in a wider variety of roles?
Connell
who argued caring courses reflectd w/c girls habitus?
Fuller
who argued gender stereotyping amongst pupils and teachers are most significant in subject choice?
Skelton
who argued male students called sporty girls lesbians. - lowers self-esteem in subjects like sport?
Alison Dewar
who argued science is seen as male subject because most classrooms are dominated by boys and the most teachers are men?
Kelly
who argued gender perception is important to subject choice e.g. arts and humanities are seen as feminine?
Colley
who argued pupils in single-sex schools hold less stereotypical images of subjects resulting in higher take-ups of non-traditional subjects?
Leonard
who found the female peer groups reinforce the ideas of traditional femininity?
Archer / Archer et al
who argued w/c girls gain symbolic capital by performing their over-feminine identities?
Archer et al
who argued girls who aimed to universities were still attached to their families and wanted money to support their parents?
Evans
who argued ‘caring’ is a crucial part of working class feminine identity - leads to self-exclusion from elite universities?
Skeggs
who argued male pupils use terms like ‘gay’ in a derogatory manner?
Paetcher
who argued studs/slags?
Sue Lees
who argued male teachers told boys off for behaving like girls and teased them when they got lower marks than girls in tests?
Haywood
