Outline and explain two reasons why different pupil subcultures exist in schools

Question 1

point 1

Answer 1

• Paul willis: learning to labour

-counter school culture was one of rebellion against the school rules and focused on disrupting school life, with status being gained within the group for bad behaviour

• go to school to ‘have a laff’
• mainly from working class boys who didnt need the qualifications to get into their manual jobs

Question 2

point 2

Answer 2

• negative labelling
• rosenthal and jacobson: told teacher that certain students had been identified as ‘academic spurters’ who had lots of potential for learning and growth.

-Truth was that they were picked at random and still did better then anyone bruv