Racism, Labelling And Setting And Streaming

Question 1

Who conducted research into labelling?

Answer 1

Sewell

Question 2

Name the 4 responses Sewell found

Answer 2

Rebels
Conformists
Innovators
Retreatists

Question 3

Define labelling in education

Answer 3

Teachers applying labels to students which can lead to the self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 4

Name the 3 researchers with supporting evidence of labelling in schools

Answer 4

Rosenthal and Jacobson
Becker
Rist

Question 5

What is the self fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 5

Acting out your label

Question 6

Define halo effect

Answer 6

Where you’ve been labelled one characteristic so people assume other characteristics that link with it

Question 7

Why do many sociologists think that working class children do worse in education (labelling)

Answer 7

W/C children often have negative labels attached to them

Question 8

What was Rist’s study about labelling called

Answer 8

Tigers and clowns

Question 9

What 2 things did Dunne conclude about her study on labelling

Answer 9

Teachers saw underachievement as normal for W/C kids

W/C parents were labelled as uninterested in their child’s education

Question 10

What was Rosenthal and Jacobson’s study called?

Answer 10

Pygmalion in the classroom

Question 11

Where was Rosenthal and Jacobsons study conducted?

Answer 11

In an elementary school in California

Question 12

What happened in Rosenthal and Jacobson’s study?

Answer 12

The randomly selected 20% were encouraged more as teachers accepted their labels, this led to the self fulfilling prophecy

Question 13

Define setting and streaming

Answer 13

Placing children into ability sets

Question 14

Who came up with educational triage

Answer 14

Gilborn and Youdel

Question 15

What is the educational triage?

Answer 15

Students are sorted into 3 groups: Will pass anyway
Those with potential
The hopeless

Question 16

What does Lacey suggest categorising students into less able and more able groups causes?

Answer 16

Polarisation (opposite extremes)

Question 17

What does Lacey say polarisation leads to?

Answer 17

Pro-school subcultures in top sets and anti-school subcultures in bottom sets

Question 18

Suggest a reason why bottom said/working class students adopt features of anti-school subcultures

Answer 18

Bottom set students are unable to gain status through academic achievement

Question 19

Name the researcher/research which provides evidence of anti-school subculture

Answer 19

Ball - beachside comprehensive, streaming being abolished led to a decline in subcultures

Question 20

What does Ball say still happened at beachside comprehensive?

Answer 20

Teachers still continued to positively label m/c students, so they still did better in their exams