Section Two- Education Flashcards
What’s Functionalism in education?
(Core values,appropriate jobs,economy)
Secondary socialisation passes core values.
Education shifts and sorts people for appropriate jobs
Education teaches skills needed for work and by the economy.
Allocation function.
What’s Durkheim education?
(Norms/values, integrate,cohesion)
Education passes norms and values to integrate individuals into society, creates social order based on cohesion, value consensus, strengthen social solidarity.
What’s the Functionalist perspective on education?
(Meritocratic,talent/effort)
Education’s meritocratic, social rewards allocated by talent/effort than born into a position, ascribed status.
Talent+motivation+equal opportunity=qualifications and a high position in society
Marxists say education legitimises inequality through ideology?
(Prepares work,skills/values,ruling class)
Education prepares children for world of work, teaches skills/ values employers need.
Also, passes ruling class ideology, supports capitalism.
Legitimises inequality
Marxists say education legitimises inequality through ideology, Bowles and Gintis (1976)?
(Correspondence, hierarchy,grades)
Correspondence between pupil experiences in school and adult work.
Taught to accept hierarchy, motivated by grades.
Marxists view education as legitimises inequality through ideology?
(Capitalist ideology)
Education passes on capitalist ideology
Althusser a neo-Marxist say education legitimises inequality through ideology?
(Capitalism,legitimise inequality,docile)
Educations a tool in capitalism, legitimises inequality as seen fairly but not.
Docile, obedient work force, no challenging authority
What are the similarity’s between Functionalist and Marxist?
(Picture,interaction,work/economy)
Look at the bigger picture, ignore social interaction except Willis. Educations linked to work/economy.
What are the differences between Functionalist and Marxist?
(Inequality,meritocracy,reproduce)
inequality’s different.
Functionalists, education passes meritocracy and better themselves.
Marxists, education helps reproduce and legitimise inequality.
What are the criticisms of Functionalism?
(Lack graduates,failing employers)
Education system doesn’t prepare people for work, lack of engineering graduates, educations failing what employers/economy needs.
What are the criticisms of Marxism?
(Passive victims,obedience,resist)
Assumes people are passive victims, exaggerates W/C are disclosed into obedience, Willis showed how students resist this theory.
Feminists say Education systems patriarchal?
Hidden curriculum,gender,position)
Hidden curriculum reinforces gender differences. Gender stereotyping.
Girls performing higher than boys but get less attention. Men dominate top positions in school head teacher, deputy head.
Liberal Feminists say Education systems patriarchal?
(Equal education)
want equal access to education for both sexes.
Radical Feminists say Education systems patriarchal?
(Men bad influence, female centred)
believe men are a bad influence, want female centred education for girls.
Marxist Feminists say Education systems patriarchal?
(gender inequality, class/ethnicity)
want to consider gender inequalities combined with inequalities of class/ethnicity.
What’s the Hidden curriculum?
(Social norms, school,rewards)
Social norms are values passed on from school, dressing smartly, turning up on time and working hard to achieve rewards. Needed for adult life.
What’s the Labelling theory, teachers create self-fulfilling prophecy?
(Character, troublemaker, bright spark)
Deciding a character of others and treating them accordingly whether fair or not.
“Troublemaker” disciplined more harshly.
“Bright spark” given encouragement to help succeed further.
What’s the Label theory, Gillborn and Youdell (2000)?
(black, disciplined, low expectations)
Gillborn and youdell (2000) found black pupils are more likely to be disciplined than white peers for same behaviour, low expectations for black pupils.
What’s Streaming?
(Class, all/most subjects)
Sorting students into classes according to ability, stay in these for all/most of subjects.
What’s Setting?
(Class, subject-to-subject)
Students sorted into classes according to ability, on a subject-by-subject basis.
Student could be in top class for maths and the lowest for music.
What’s Mixed ability?
(Class, high/lowest students)
Students sorted into classes that aren’t based on ability, highest/lowest achieving students taught together.
What’s Setting and streaming, Ball 1981?
(high expectations, high ability, lower class suffered)
Ball (1981) Found teachers had high expectations for highest ability classes, reduced attention.
Lower classes suffered negative labelling performed poorly.
What’s Subculture?
(Share ideas/behaviours, mainstream culture)
Group who share ideas/ behaviours patterns different from mainstream culture.
What’s Pro-school subculture and Mac An Gmail (1994)?
(Academic achievers M/C)
Mac An Ghaill (1994) Academic achievers who were mainly M/C, pursing success through traditional A-level subjects.
What’s Anti-school subculture?
(Values, norms, rules school)
students who don’t agree with the values, norms, rules, of the school.
What’s streaming and Lacey (1970)?
(Grammar school, labelled bright, bottom stream failures)
Lacey (1970), Study in a grammar school, selected pupils labelled “bright” at age 11, bottom stream pupils formed anti-school subculture, labelled failures.
What’s Ethnicity in education and Fuller (1984)?
(Black girls,Comprehensive school, teachers racist, formed subculture)
fuller (1984), Study of black girls in year 11 at a comprehensive school, they were high ability but teachers were racist, worked for own approval. Formed a subculture, worked alone, succeeded.
What’s Social class in education and Willis (1977)?
(Disrespected, gain respect, W/C, manual jobs)
Willis (1977), Found the ‘lads’ disrupted lessons to gain respect from peers. Boys were W/C and likely to get manual jobs, see school as useless.
What’s Gender achievement in education?
(Girls results boys)
Girls get better results in education than boys.
Does Social class affect educational achievement?
(Professional backgrounds, higher education, M/C study)
Professional backgrounds enter higher education.
M/C study for A levels whereas W/C don’t.
Eysenck (1971)
(socio-economic groups,IQs)
States different socio-economic groups have different relative IQs but controversial, difficult to know potential IQ differences would be more important for achievement.
What are Labelling factors,Becker and Keddie (1971)?
(Negative labelling, failure, ideal pupil)
Becker and Keddie (1971), Negative labelling leads to self-fulfilling prophecy of failure. state teachers compare pupils to an imaginary ‘ideal pupil’ by their S/C.
What are Streaming factors and theorist?
(Top streams, higher S/C)
Ball (1981), pupils in top streams are from a higher S/C.
What are Subculture factors?
(Negative labelling, anti-school subculture, non-conformist W/C)
Negative labelling low status pupils form anti-school subcultures. Woods (1983) states non-conformist reactions come from W/C pupils
How does Material deprivation affect achievement?
(Economic poverty, low achievement)
Theory- Economic poverty’s a big factor in low achievement in school.
Material deprivation affect education, Douglas (1964)?
(Unsatisfactory conditions, lower ability tests)
Douglas (1964), Children in unsatisfactory living conditions (poor housing, lack of nutritious foods, overcrowding) didn’t do well in ability tests compared to kids with comfortable backgrounds.
How does Cultural deprivation affect achievement theory?
W/C culture/parenting aren’t aimed at educational achievement.
How does Cultural deprivation affect education, Douglas (1964)?
(Parental interest, M/C parents evening, W/C shifts)
Douglas (1964), Thought level of parental interest was the most important factor, M/C parents attending open evenings. W/C dont, working shifts.
How does class effect attitude to education and theorist?
(Non-manual study, manual immediate gratification)
Sugarman (1970) pupils from non-manual backgrounds have different outlooks ambitious, invested time studying. Manual backgrounds lived for immediate gratification.
What are the Material and cultural deprivation theories?
(Ignore W/C value education, Ethnocentric can’t measure)
Cultural- differences between M/C and W/C but ignores W/C who value high education, assume they no culture.
Ethnocentric method is unsound, attending parents evening isn’t a good way to measure interest.
Ethnocentric- prioritising values and culture of a particular group
What are the Differences in achievement, Bernstein (1970)?
(W/C restricted code, M/C elaborated code, W/C disadvantage)
Bernstein (1970)-W/C pupils in East London weren’t comfortable with style of language in schools.
Restricted code, less formal words.
M/C used same and elaborated code as teachers, wordy style of speech. W/C at disadvantage.
What are the Differences in achievement and theorist?
(M/C cultural capital, expectations from parents)
Bourdieu (1971,74) M/C at a advantage due to cultural capital, right language, skills, knowledge and attitudes.M/C
more cultural capital, more successful in education, W/C don’t have access to cultural capital.
Cultural reproduction, M/C families pass on cultural capital and expectations from parents.
What are the Problems with Bernstein’s theory?
(W/C speech wrong, just different)
Variations within M/C and W/C, different sections ,vary in how they use elaborated code“posh language” of teachers
Sociologists have developed ideas that W/C speech patterns are inferior or ‘wrong’, controversial Labov (1973) thinks elaborated code’s just different.
What are the Problems with Bourdieu’s theory, Halsey et al (1980) ?
(Material factors stops education)
Halsey et al (1980) found material factors are important. Lack of money stops kids staying on at school or going to university.
Not all W/C students fail, if they don’t have cultural capital.