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Criticism of Durkheim

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Assume society has shared culture - multicultural

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Parsons

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Family socialisation based on particularistic standards; Universalistic Standards in School
Teach - value of achievement + value of equality of opportunity

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Bowles and Gintis

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Study 237 NY seniors - grade related to personality
Jug and mug - knowledge poured into empty mugs
Sample of individuals with similar IQs- wide range of attainment
‘Education reproduces inequality by justifying privilege and attributing poverty to personal failure’

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Bowled and Gintis Criticism

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Influence of formal curriculum

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Willis

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Learning to Labour
Counter school cultures- lads - their very rejection of school made them suitable for male, unskilled manual work. - transform into shop-floor culture
Penetrate some of the lies of the elites

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Rikowski

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Education commodity

UK company Nord Anglia - Int’l School Division of Nord Anglia Education PLC operates schools all over the world

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Usher

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Postmodernity
Education liberates from ignorance + realize potential
Metanarratives
Adult education - decentring of knowledge; decentring of self

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Apple

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Administrative knowledge most important

Channel One TV for class - business propaganda

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Postmodernism Criticism

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National Curriculum - centralisation - less choice
Little empirical evidence
Ignore powerful economic and political forces

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Ball et al

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15 schools - 3 neighbouring local educational authorities

Successful schools - complacent

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Gewirtz

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Privileged/ Skilled choosers
Semi-skilled choosers - inclination but limited capacity
Disconnected choosers

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Glatter, Woods, Bagley

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Marketization of schooling

Local factors determine how the educational market operates

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Finn

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Youth training schemes - restrict number of people who join trade unions
Cheap labour + no social unrest

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McKnight

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Education Action Zones helped KS1 but not beyond

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Tomllison

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Labour narrowed education to an economic function - teach to test
‘Critiques of the narrowing of education to economic ends want to reclaim education as a humanizing, liberalizing, democratic force’

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Youth Cohort Study

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Series of longitudinal surveys based on large samples

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Klineberg

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Western IQ tests to Yakima Native Americans - their culture does not value speed = did not finish in time

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Gillborn and Youdell

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Intelligence replaced by ability

A to C economy - discrimination

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Sugarman

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Subculture orientations: fatalism; immediate gratification; present-time orientation; collectivism

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Evans

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Fieldwork- London - most parents value education but only middle class are able to incorporate learning in play
Social variation model - see differences rather than deficiencies
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Bernstein

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Pictures - 5yo - stories - working class did not voice meaning {football breaking glass}
Pictures of food - working class classified personal meaning - upper class abstract ideas
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Bernstein Criticism

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Social class vague
Lumps together all non-manual workers into a middle class
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Bourdieu

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Tastes: Legitimate; Middlebrow; Popular

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Habitus

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Disposition, tastes and expectations of the social group to which individuals belong

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Bordieu

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The more widespreaded a qualification, the more it is devalued = stratify universities

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Sullivan

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Survey - school leaving age
Successful - read more complex fictions/ more sophisticated drama
Correlated with parental cultural capital

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Poverty Penalty

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Negative effects of poverty

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McKnight

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Poverty Penalty does not affect Chinese

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Heargraves

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Stages of typing/ classification: Speculation; Working Hypothesis; Elaboration; Stabilisation

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Rist

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Table 1- most able; Table 2 and 3 - the rest

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Rosenthal and Jacobson Criticism

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Did not observe interactions in the class
IQ tests used were of dubious quality + improperly adminstered
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Fuller

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Female + Black - girls resented negative label = want to prove them wrong

33
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Mac An Ghaill

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Working class Y11:
Macho Lads
Academic Achievers
New Entreprisers

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Gender Gap Criticism

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Exam results show boys have progressed over the past 50y.

The gap is closing in recent years.

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Sharpe

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1970 -working class girls priorities unlikely to encourage them educationally 
1990 - priorities changed
36
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Best

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132 books
Heroes: 94 male; 44 female
Female: family situations
Occupations: 69 men; 18 women 
Some non traditional roles: female sailor, male babysitter
Does not reveal effect
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Licht and Dweck

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Girls lack confidence in their ability to carry out intellectual tasks
Boys shrug off failured
Girls blame themselves for failures and attribute success to luck
Boys get more criticism

38
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Beck

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The second modernity - rick, uncertainty, individualisation = financial independence + career reflect identity

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Francis and Skelton

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Concern with male behaviour - moral panic among newspapers and politicians

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Jackson

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Laddish behaviour - self defence - feminisation of work + labeling

41
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Epstein et al

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The poor boys discourse - victims

The boys will be boys discourse

42
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Francis and Skelton

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The problem boys discourse - anti-learning

The at risk boys discourse -vulnerable, disconnected = macho outer shell

43
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Modood

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Ethnic minorities might have cultural capital - they jobs in UK were depressed - downward mobility

44
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Blair

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Majority of teachers are well intentioned + not consciously racist

45
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Coard

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Disproportionate number of black carib in educationally subnormal - wrongly placed

46
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Wright

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Staff committed to equality
Assumed Asians had poor command of english
Disapprove Asian girls seeking privacy when changing for PE

47
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Mirza

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Types of Teachers:
Overt Racists
The Christians - colour blind
The Crusaders - active anti-racists
The Liberal Chauvinists - wanted to help but help was patronising
48
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Educational Triage

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Used in events of a disaster, whereby patients are prioritised. Hopless cases are left to die.

49
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Sewell

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Black Studnets:
Conformists
Innovators -education important, school rejected
Retreatists - loners
Rebels - Jamaican Yard Man
50
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Archer

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Muslim Boys - proud, strong masculine identity, black is cool, not identify with UK, future breadwinners

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