Educational theorists

Question 1

Sifting and sorting

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Davis & Moore

Question 2

Education creates shared values through secondary socialisation

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Durkheim

Question 3

Education promotes individualism and competitiveness

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Hargreaves

Question 4

Education performs roles allocation in society.

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Durkheim

Question 5

Education bridges the gap between particularistic standards of the home and the universalistic standards of the workplace

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Parsons

Question 6

The myth of meritocracy

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Bowles & Gintis

Question 7

The hidden curriculum & The correspondence principle

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Bowles & Gintis

Question 8

Learning to Labour

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Willis

Question 9

Cultural capital

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Bourdieu

Question 10

Whilst steps have been taken to make education more equal it is still fundamentally patriarchal and promotes gender role socialisation

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Stanworth

Question 11

The education system is inherently patriarchal and sexual harassment isn’t taken as seriously as other forms of bullying

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Banyard

Question 12

The hidden curriculum reinforces patriarchal values and not the needs of capitalism

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Heaton & Lawson

Question 13

The idea that education prepares student for the working world is not inherently bad as they are simply being allocated roles in society.

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Functionalist

Question 14

Labelling theory

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Becker

Question 15

Differentiation & polarisation

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Lacy

Question 16

Masculinity, sexuality, and schooling. 4 subcultures amongst men: Macho lads, Academic achievers, new enterprisers, and Real Englishmen

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Mac An Ghail

Question 17

Completed a study in which teachers were told random students had higher potential, those students succeeded.

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Rosenthal & Jacobson

Question 18

Educational triage & A*-C economy

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Gillborn & Youdell

Question 19

Students placed into lower sets were often disheartened leading to the formation of anti-school subcultures and self fulfilling prophecy’s

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Keddie

Question 20

Students placed into higher sets are warmed up to achieve academically, whilst students in lower sets are cooled down, they have their knowledge restricted and are pushed towards vocational jobs.

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Ball

Question 21

Found that labels given by teachers to students often become their “pivotal identities”

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Waterhouse

Question 22

Went undercover in a high-school as a Stanford grad student to see the effect of teacher labelling. (Highschool confidential)

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Jeremy Iverson

Question 23

Teacher stereotypes on class often stem from the appearance of pupils

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Lareau

Question 24

Interviewed women in the 70’s and in the 90’s and noticed how attitudes shifted from being home orientated to career orientated.

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Sharpe

Question 25

Used Beck's ideas of the global risk society to explain why women are more focussed on being qualified

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Francis & Skelton

Question 26

Argues that an environment absent of both male role models and traditionally male traits of dominance and strength compared to an abundance of 'female traits' such as communication and organisation means boys are less successful. (feminisation of education)

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Aker

Question 27

Girls are more successful in school due to the impact of feminism

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Mistsos & Browne

Question 28

Laddish subcultures form due to a decline in traditionally masculine jobs and the view that academics is feminine.

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Jackson

Question 29

Societies constructed views on gender are the dominant factor in subject choice

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Colley

Question 30

Peer groups and your environment massively impact subject choice. Girls at all girls schools are twice as likely to take maths

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Colley

Question 31

W/C students were most likely to be placed in the bottom sets where behaviour would deteriorate.

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Ball

Question 32

Students whose parents have middle class academic backgrounds are more likely to be labelled positively compared to students who parents have traditionally w/c jobs.

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Ball

Question 33

Studied three generations of British Indian / Pakistani families and found that education was viewed as both capital and as something to be grateful of as it was not available for free in their country of origin.

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Bosit

Question 34

Biological differences are a crucial factor in determining educational achievement whether that is race, or gender, or class.

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Murray & Hernstein (Wankers)

Question 35

Black Single-Parent family rates lead to a lack of male role models and educational failure.

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Murray (again wanker)

Question 36

"Gangsta Culture" is inherently anti-school and damages black communities abilities to succeed educationally.

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Abbott (Wanker)

Question 37

Found that debt fear was stopping large amounts of W/C students from considering university.

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Callender and Jackson

Question 38

Found that material deprivation and not being able to afford educational resources had a massive impact on w/c students

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Herbet J. Gans

Question 39

Found that poverty was the largest factor effecting educational achievement

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Joseph Round tree foundation

Question 40

Supporting Bourdieu's work on cultural capital this theorist argues that w/c students suffer "a crisis of confidence" at elite universities as it is a middle class habitus.

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Reay Et al

Question 41

Argues that the w/c use restrictive speech codes compared to the elaborate speech codes of the middle class and therefore fail to succeed in an educational environment.

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Bernstein

Question 42

Argues that the w/c fail to go onto further education as they are focused on 'instant gratification' compared to the m/c who value the educational system for it's social mobility and focus on delayed gratification

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Sugarman (Wanker)

Question 43

This theorist found that parental interest was crucial to educational success and that w/c parents were less interested.

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Douglas (wanker)

Question 44

Found that similarly to Bosit's work on Indian and Pakistani culture Phinese families value education heavily.

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Francis & Archer

Question 45

Exogenous & Endogenous privatisation

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Ball

Question 46

"Skilled" vs "disconnected" choosers and the myth of parentocracy

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Ball

Question 47

Ball's work on skilled and disconnected choosers is heavily linked to what other class based theory of education

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Bourdieu's cultural capital

Question 48

The cola-isation of schools and it's effect on narrowing the curriculum

Answer 48

Ball

Question 49

What are Gillborn and Youdell's 4 aspects of educational equality?

Answer 49

Equality of participation Equality of outcome Equality of circumstance Equality of access