INTERNAL Class Differences Flashcards
What are he 5 mains factors that contribute to class achievement levels?
Labelling The SFP Streaming Pupil subcultures Pupils class identities
Becker (1971)
60 Chicago high schools - see how pupils fitted the ideal student stereotype
M/c closest to it
Rist (1970)
Used information of Children’s background, put them in separate groups -
M/c ‘tigers’ (closest, greater encouragement)
W/c ‘cardinals’ & ‘clowns’ (seated further away, lower level books)
Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968)
SFP - chose children at random to ‘spurt’ (was untrue). A year later 47% of the individuals made significant progress
What does gillborn and youdell (2001) say?
A to C economy Educational triage:
Teachers stereotype w/c and black students labelled them as hopeless cases = SFP and failure
What does differentiation mean?
Teachers Categorising students as a result of their ability putting by them in different classes.
Schools deem more able = higher status
Lacey (1970)
What does Polarisation mean?
The way people respond to streaming, two opposite poles (eg pro-school subculture & anti-school subculture)
What is a pro-school and anti-school subculture?
Pro-school: High streamed pupils, successful.
Anti-school: low streams, low self-esteem, low status.
Who want to abolish streaming and why?
Ball (1981)
Beachside comprehensive school:
Teaching mixed ability groups
Criticism of the labelling theory:
Self-rejecting prophecy
What does symbolic capital mean?
Status in school, deemed worth and vauled
What does symbolic violence mean?
Less status and value within education
What is nike identity?
Archer- Stems from symbolic violence - w/c to create selfworth, status and value. Their own subculture.
Girls: heterosexual feminine style
Who talks about differentiations and polarisation?
Lacey (1970)
What does Bourdieu state about self-exclusion?
W/c think places like oxbridge as being ‘not for the likes of us’.
Not being able to ‘fit in’
Comes from their habitus
