Gender + DA: External (boys)

Question 1

What are the ideas around boys’ poorer literacy skills?

Answer 1

The lack of reading ability has an impact on educational achievement

Question 2

Which sociologists studied boys’ poor literacy skills?

Answer 2

• Mitsos and Browne: Mothers are more likely to read to their children. This leads to a lack of a same sex role model for boys
• Kirby (2006): Boys no longer take part in “communicative play” as it’s been replaced by TV and video games

Question 3

What us the evaluation of boys’ poorer literacy skills?

Answer 3

Father and son reading scheme have been set up

Question 4

What is the decline in traditional male jobs?

Answer 4

Globalisation has reduced the availability of typically male jobs (mining, manufacturing, etc)

Question 5

Which pair of sociologists studied the decline in traditional male jobs?

Answer 5

Mitsos and Browne: It causes a “crisis of masculinity” which stops boys from trying in school

Question 6

What is the evaluation of the decline in traditional male jobs?

Answer 6

They never required educational success anyway

Question 7

What are unrealistic aspirations and who studied them?

Answer 7

Francis found that boys aimed for jobs that didn’t require high grades (e.g. footballer)

Question 8

What is the evaluation of unrealistic aspirations?

Answer 8

Girls also have unrealistic aspirations like influencers