Internal Factors - CLASS AND ACHIEVEMENT Flashcards
What did Dunne and Gazely argue about labelling in secondary schools?
That schools persistently produce W/C underachievement because of their labels and assumptions
What did Dunne and Gazely find out from an interview at a secondary school?
Teachers ‘ normalised ‘ the underachievement of W/C pupils and seemed unconcerned about it and felt they could do nothing about it.
Whereas they believed they could overcome the underachievement of M/C pupils
Why did teachers in Dunne and Gazely’s example normalise W/C underachievement and believed they could overcome M/C underachievement?
They did this because of their belief of pupils home backgrounds - they labelled W/C parents as uninterested in child’s education, but labelled M/C parents as supportive
What did the teachers in Dunne and Gazely’s study labelling W/C and M/C parents lead to?
Led to a class difference in how teachers dealt with pupils they perceived as underachieving - setting extension work for M/C but entering W/C for easier exams.
What did Dunne and Gazelely concluded about Labelling in Secondary Schools?
Concluded that the way teachers explained and dealt with underachievement itself constructed class differences in levels of attainment
What did Archer focus on to do with Pupil’s identities and the school?
Focused on the interactions between W/C pupils’ identities and school, and how this produces underachievement.
Archer drew on Bourdieu’s concept of habitus , what is it ?
The dispositions taken for granted ways of thinking that are shared by a particular social class - includes tastes and preferences about lifestyle and consumption, their outlook on life and their expectation of what is normal for ‘ people like us ‘
What is the link between M/C habitus and the education system?
The M/C have the power to define its habitus as superior and to impose it on the education system thus giving them an education advantage
What is the link between M/C habitus and symbolic capital
Because schools have a M/C habitus, M/C children who have been socialised at home with M/C tastes and preferences gain ‘ symbolic capital ‘ or status from the school and are seen as having worth and value
What is the link between W/C habitus and symbolic capital?
School devalues W/C habitus as their tastes are deemed to be tasteless and worthless.
What did Bourdieu call the withholding of symbolic capital?
Symbolic violence
What is the link between W/C M/C habitus clash and education
Because of WC / MC habitus clash, education is alien and unnatural to W/C
What did Archer say about “ loosing themselves “
For W/C to achieve they have to ‘ loose themselves ‘, leading to feeling alienated from M/C spaces such as uni and professional jobs
