Key sociologists Flashcards
School is a bridge between the particularisation of the family and the universalism of wider society.
Parsons
Provided important evidence of the self-fulfilling prophecy.
Rosenthal and Jacobson
Education is an ideological state apparatus.
Althusser.
Each social class possess its own set of cultural ideas called a habitus
Bourdieu
Immediate gratification, fatalism and collectivism help to explain w/c underachievement.
Sugarman
There is no cultural deprivation, merely a cultural difference
Keddie
Schooling operates in the long shadow of work
Bowles and Gintis
School is a society in miniature
Durkheim
Top-stream students are “warmed up” and bottom set are “cooled down”
Ball
The woman’s movement and feminism have challenged the traditional stereotype of women’s roles, providing new role models and opportunities for girls.
Fuller
Some African-Caribbean children are unfairly labelled as having severe special educational needs
Mitsos and Browne
The negative labels attached to some students from minority ethnic groups may be actively resisted by those so labelled
Coard
Explored the links between cultural, educational, social and economic capital and their effect on educational achievement
Bourdieu
Teachers give those in higher-stream classes more and different types of knowledge than those in lower-streams
Ball
The education system simply reproduces class of origin as class of destination
Bowles and Gintis
One of the most important factors explaining educational success or failure is parental interest and encouragement.
Douglas
M/c children’s use of the elaborated code help success in education
Bernstein
The education system is a major means of role allocation
Davis and Moore
Found evidence that features of a school’s organisation can make a difference to student progress
Ball
There was a similarity between counter-school-sub-culture and the workplace culture of the lower w/c
Willis
