Social Class: Outside factors LT1

Question 1

What inside school factors effect education ?

Answer 1

. Labelling
. Streaming
. Education triage
. Subcultures

Question 2

What researchers talked about labelling ?

Answer 2

. Gillborn and Youdell
. Becker

Question 3

Gillborn and Youdell

Answer 3

Teachers label students based on stereotypical assumptions of class.
Found working class were labelled as disruptive and lower ability to middle class.
labelling leads to SFP to take place and expectations become part of the child’s self concept

Question 4

Becker

Answer 4

Teacher label pupils judging how close they are to their ‘ideal pupil’.

Question 5

When is Self-Fulfilling Prophecy likely to occur ?

Answer 5

When children are streamed they believe teachers believe they are hopeless in lower sets

Question 6

What researchers talked about streaming ?

Answer 6

. Douglas
. Gillborn and Youdell

Question 7

Douglas

Answer 7

Found children placed in high sets at age 8 had improved by age 11

Question 8

What researcher talks about the A-C economy ?

Answer 8

Gillborn and Youdell

Question 9

Gillborn and Youdell - A-C economy

Answer 9

studied london secondary schools found that streaming is linked to league tables, leading to A-C economy where schools focus time and effort on pupils they believe can achieve C’s

Question 10

What researcher talks about the education triage ?

Answer 10

Gillborn and Youdell

Question 11

Education triage

Answer 11

Argued school’s categories pupils into those who will pass, those with potential and hopeless cases.
Concentrating on potential and ignoring hopeless cases

Question 12

What researcher talk about subcultures ?

Answer 12

. Lacey

Question 13

Lacey

Answer 13

pupils develop subcultures due to teacher labelling.

Question 14

What subcultures do working class develop ?

Answer 14

Anti school subcultures to gain status from peers

Question 15

What subcultures do middle class develop ?

Answer 15

Pro school subcultures to gain status from school

Question 16

What researcher links Subcultures (Inside) to working class attitudes and values (outside)

Answer 16

Willis

Question 17

Willis

Answer 17

Suggests that anti school cultures are a product of working class culture which leads the ‘lads’ to resist school.

Question 18

Weakness of inside factors

Answer 18

• Deterministic
• Reductionist
• Marxist critical = not just teachers that label but whole education structure reproduces class divisions