Pupils Subcultures - Ball

Question 1

What did Ball find?

Answer 1

-when the school abolished banding, pupils to polarising into subcultures was largely removed and the influence of ant-school subcultures

Question 2

Why did middle class students continue to do better despite polarisation disappearing?

Answer 2

• teachers continued to categorise students differently and were more likely to label middle class pupils as cooperative and able
• this positive labelling was reflected in their exam results indicated a self fulfilling prophecy has occurred