social class dea INTERNAL Flashcards
becker
interview with teachers to find ideal pupil
- MC closest to ideal, WC furthest
hempel-jorgensen
WC school ideal pupil = quiet passive and obedient. defined by behaviour not ability
MC school idea pupil = defined in terms of personality and academic ability
dunne and gazeley
- teachers normalised underachievement of WC
- labelled MC parents as supportive and WC parents as uninterested
rist
Teachers used information about children’s home backgrounds and appearance to put them in different groups. MC pupils were sat nearest the teacher and were give more encouragement. WC pupils were given lower level books and less opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.
rosenthal and jacobson
Intelligence and learning, self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen student
douglas (ability grouping and pupil subcultures)
- children placed in a lower stream by age 8 had suffered a decline in IQ by age 10
gillbourn and youdell (ability grouping and pupil subcultures)
a-c economy and educational triage
lacey
- differentiation, polarisation
- pro-school, anti-school subcultures
ball
even when schools abolished streaming, differentiation still continued and teachers still more likely to label MC as able- positive SFP
hargreaves
Anti school Working Class subcultures are generally found in the bottom streams so they obtain status amongst their peers by adopting anti-school values
evaluations of labelling theory
- deterministic (fuller as counter point)
- marxists: labelling theory ignores wider structures of power in which labelling takes place
archer - symbolic capital and violence
- for WC students, educational success is experienced as a process of ‘losing yourself’
- nike identities - Schools MC habitus stigmatises WC identities
ingram
- nike identity as a means of generating symbolic capital and self worth, actively choosing to reject education
evans
Self exclusion and WC reluctance to apply to good unis
bordieu (internal factors)
habitus and symbolic violence