pupil identities and feminism

Question 1

how do peer groups reinforce traditional gender identities - boys

Answer 1

mac an ghaill - male peer groups put boys under pressure to not take school seriously

w/c boys - didnt make effort to be school
m/c boys - behind scenes effort

Question 2

how do peer groups reinforce traditional gender identities - girls

Answer 2

archer - female peer groups found to reinforce ideas of traditional feminity

money and time on appearance for power and status

ladette - said school had a grudge against her

Question 3

how do peer groups reinforce traditional gender identities - verbal abuse

Answer 3

paetcher - male students used gay and queer in derogratory manner

mac an ghaill - girls seen as sexual objects - male gaze

Question 4

how do peer groups reinforce traditional gender identities - double standards

Answer 4

sue lees - boys boast about sexual exploits but girl is slut

social control

Question 5

evaluations of peer groups

Answer 5

postmodernism studies:

jackson - laddishness amongst girls on the rise

mccormac - male sixth form students less concerned about traditional masculinity - accept metrosexual identities

Question 6

how do teachers reinforce traditional gender identities

Answer 6

haywood - male teachers told boys off for ‘behaving like girls’

abraham

Question 7

liberal feminism

Answer 7

celebrate progess made

girls outperforming boys - more women into politics and higher paid roles

• gendered socialisation still exists
• gender differences in subject choice
• traditional gender identities reinforced

Question 8

radical feminsim

Answer 8

patriarchy still works through school

boys’ underachievement is a moral panic - focus shows male dominated system panicking

girls do not seem to be breaking the glass ceiling

Question 9

evaluating feminist persepctive

Answer 9

difficult to measure impact of peer grousp

postmodernism - mccormac and jackson - pick and choose identities

marxists - bigger process that students are socialised into