School Subcultures

Question 1

school subcultures - pupil subcultures

Answer 1

group of people who share values, norms and behaviours that give them a sense of belonging, support and peer-group status

Question 2

school subcultures - why do subcultures emerge?

Answer 2

as a response to being labelled
led by differentiation and polarisation
effects them failing/succeeding

Question 3

school subcultures - differentiation

Answer 3

process teachers categorise/judge students based on how they perceive them

Question 4

school subcultures - polarisation

Answer 4

process pupils respond to being categorised

Question 5

school subcultures - pro-school subculture

Answer 5

pupils committed/conform to values of the school

gain status through academic success

Question 6

school subcultures - mac & ghail

Answer 6

academic achievers: working-class white/asian males that aspire middle-class careers through academic success
new entrepreneurs: academic success through vocational subjects
the conformists: black people that conform to avoid racist stereotyping

Question 7

school subcultures - anti-school subculture

Answer 7

pupils with delinquent values in opposition of the school
rebel to get back at the system who denied them status
subculture of resistance

Question 8

school subcultures - what do pupils with anti-school subculture suffer?

Answer 8

loss of self-esteem

leads them to gain success/status in other methods

Question 9

school subcultures - what causes anti-school subculture?

Answer 9

self-fulfilling prophecy

contributes to poor educational performance

Question 10

school subcultures - who do black-caribbean working-class boys reject school?

Answer 10

as an act of rebellion against racist stereotyping

Question 11

school subcultures - girls adopt which behaviour?

Answer 11

ladette - dominant, uncontrolled laddish culture found among boys
secretly tree to achieve academic success