Social Class - Internal/School Based Factors

Question 0

Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 0

People become their label - good or bad

Question 1

Labelling?

Answer 1

Moral entrepreneurs have the power to stereotype the less powerful

Question 2

Subcultures?

Answer 2

Small groups who’s norms and values differ to the mainstream

Question 3

Hargreaves

Answer 3

- 3 stages of teacher labelling:
 > Speculation
 > Elaboration
 > Stabilisation
- Based on social class assumptions

Question 4

Rist

Answer 4

• American kindergarten used home info to split pupils into groups:
  > Tigers = middle class, front of the room
  > Cardinals
  > Clowns = working class, back of the room

Question 5

Sharp & Green

Answer 5

• English primary school
• Child centred education where children picked what they did
  > Middle class children chose reading
  > Working class children chose playing
• Middle class children were given help & working class children were ignored

Question 6

Rosenthal & Jacobson

Answer 6

• Effects of labelling on those labelled ‘spurters’ & less able
• ‘Spurters’ more able by the end of the year

Question 7

Margaret Fuller

Answer 7

• Teachers labelled a group of black girls as unlikely to succeed
• They rejected their label
• Went on to do well

Question 8

Other school processes

Answer 8

• Hidden curriculum
• National curriculum
• Marketisation of schools