Outcome of Labelling

Question 1

Who did the A-C Economy?

Answer 1

Gilborn and Youdell

Question 2

Explain the A-C Economy

Answer 2

Due to pressure of league tables, ration the most able student

Education Triage =
a) those who pass regardless
b) borderline cases
c) hopeless cases

Question 3

Explain an A-C Economy example

Answer 3

Hopeless cases -
Teachers spend less resources and time on them

Question 4

Provide 2 rebuttals for the A-C Economy

Answer 4

Sets with same ability students
= Boosts self esteem and confidence

Davis and Moore, Role allocation
= Sift and sorts into sets -> great qualifications, job

Question 5

Who did the Pupil Subcultures?

Answer 5

Colin Lacey

Question 6

How do subcultures form?

Answer 6

Differentiation

Question 7

What is differentiation?

Answer 7

How teachers categorise pupils

Question 8

How do teachers categorise pupils?

Answer 8

Setting + streaming, stereotypes, abilities

Question 9

What is polarisation?

Answer 9

How pupils react to the teachers differentiation

Question 10

Explain an example for Pupil Subculture

Answer 10

W/C student - antischool subculture
Truant, mis-obedient to gain school status

Question 11

Provide a rebuttal for Pupil Subcultures

Answer 11

There are more than 2 subcultures to labelling
Sewell’s Labelling study
- Rebels
- Reatreatists
- Conformists
- Innovators

Question 12

Who is the sociologist for Pupils Identities?

Answer 12

Louise Archer Et Al

Question 13

Explain the Pupils Identities

Answer 13

Schools impose symbolic violence against W/C whose identities are shaped through designer sportswear (Nike)

Question 14

What is the result of Pupils Identities?

Answer 14

W/C feel as if education is not for them

Question 15

Explain an example for Pupils Identities

Answer 15

W/C students don’t fit into M/C norms and values

Question 16

Provide a rebuttal for Pupils Identities

Answer 16

Not all W/C feel fatalistic -
Sewell’s study of conformists + innovators for black boys

Question 17

What habitus do Schools have?

Answer 17

Middle class habitus

Question 18

What is Habitus?

Answer 18

The norms, values, attitudes and behaviours of a particular social group/class

Question 19

Who is the sociologist for the term Habitus?

Answer 19

Bourdieu

Question 20

How is symbolic capital gained?

Answer 20

Through people being socialised to middle class tastes

Question 21

What’s the con of symbolic capital?

Answer 21

It devalues the working class habitus to be worthless in comparison

Question 22

What is the result of symbolic capital?

Answer 22

Leads to symbolic violence - keeping W/C in their place

Question 23

What is symbolic violence?

Answer 23

The subtle forms of domination and control through social norms, values and cultural practices

Question 24

What did Archer find out about status?

Answer 24

W/C do not receive it from school, so they seek it from peers

Question 25

Who is educational success contributed to?

Answer 25

Middle class

Question 26

What do W/C feel about educational success?

Answer 26

That they need to lose their W/C identity in order to become academic

Question 27

What is the result of symbolic violence?

Answer 27

They won't push themselves to access university or professional careers

Question 28

What is symbolic capital?

Answer 28

Resources available to an individual or group based on honour, prestige or recognition

Question 29

What's the importance of Nike identities?

Answer 29

They can be comfortable in their own identity

Question 30

How were Nike identities policed by peers?

Answer 30

Not conforming to Nike identities was seen as social suicide

Question 31

Why did teachers impose symbolic violence towards Nike identities?

Answer 31

It clashed with the school's dress code Teacher's viewed street style as 'bad taste'