Social Class Internal Factors Flashcards
What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?
This is when the labels put onto students become internalised and believed by the student and leads to them underachieving
What is the ideal student according to Becker?
MC students but especially girls
Who carried out the SFP IQ test?
Rosenthal and Jacobson
What was the results of the SFP test?
the bloomers had made more progress than the rest of the students
this was due to the labels from teachers being more positive which incentivised harder work
What sociologists came up with the educational triage?
Gillborn & Youdell
What is the educational triage?
3 streams that students are placed into by teachers
What are the 3 groups in the educational triage?
MC students labelled as university hopefuls
Some MC and WC are borderline C-D so given helps
Hopeless cases - mainly WC
How does keddie argue setting influences Achievement?
Higher sets offer more challenging work
Lower sets may have lower entry exams which can limit grades
How does setting and streaming impact Subcultures?
Those in bottom sets do not get any status from their education so form anti school subcultures
This offers gaining status through anti-school activity
Who researched anti-school subculture?
Ball
Mac an Ghaill
What sociologist came up with nike identities?
Archer
What is a habitus?
The way people respond and interpret society
how does habitus impact achievement?
those with WC habitus go against the MC school habitus meaning they do not fir it
they then turn to other subcultures and are negatively labelled
What sociologist came up with Polarisation and Differentiation?
Lacey
What is Polarisation and Differentiation?
Polarisation - when pupils respond to streaming by either moving to a pro-school subculture or an anti-school subculture
Differentiation - a form of streaming, those who are placed in higher streams gain a higher status, a way of differentiating students
What did Hargreaves find about teacher labelling?
That students react differently based on positive vs negative labels - this is also based on behaviour
Students in lower streams where labelled as no hopers and failed twice , once by being in the failing school and second by being put in the lower stream - students were regarded as ‘worthless louts’ by many teachers
Students who had been labelled as troublemakers tended to seek each other out and formed a non-conformist delinquent subculture in which they gained status through breaking school rules
What was Willis’ research on Labelling?
research with 12 working class lads in one comprehensive school in the Midlands - formed a counter school culture
The lads saw school and academic learning as pointless to their future lives as factory workers.
So spent their time messing around and resisting any attempt to learn anything.
Status was earned within the group by disrupting lessons and doing as little work as possible
The ‘lads’ were very much a traditional, working-class macho subculture, and they defined the typically middle class students who obeyed the school rules as ‘earoles’ because they were always listening to the teacher, they also saw these students as a bit cissy, in contrast to their identification with ‘proper’ masculine working class manual-labour.
