Sociologists - Education Flashcards
BERNSTEIN
Functionalist.
Restricted and elaborated speech codes can impact and effect a student’s education.
Restricted codes are an informal speech and elaborated codes are a more formal speech.
BERITER and ENGELMANN
Some students don’t speak English at home and can have a disadvantage in school compared to other students.
CLARKE
Students who speak more than one language pick up new information easier, giving them an advantage to other students.
BECKER
Labelling theory in school of students getting labels.
MOIR and MOIR
Discovered the school system is run in a way that suits girls rather than boys.
REAY
Middle class mothers have social capital and can help their children succeed.
Social capital are social connections and networks that can help educational success.
FRANCIS
Working class parents lack social capital despite their high aspirations.
SUE SHARP
Studied the priorities of young girls in the 1970’s, which were marriage and having a family, compared to in the 1990’s where they changed to having a good education and job.
DOUGLAS
Parental aspirations are the most important factors of attainment.
HARGREAVES
Teachers label their students, which become more firm over time.
Studied anti-school subcultures and found it was mostly boys who created and were a part of them.
PARSONS
Feminist.
There are three functions of education, teaching skills required for work, role allocation and secondary socialisation.
ALTHUSSER
Marxist.
The education system socialises students from a working class background into accepting their status.
CAROLYN JACKSON
Laddish subcultures provide an excuse for boys to be disruptive in class and not pay attention because being smart isn’t ‘cool’.
AMELIA HEMPEL-JORGENSEN
The ideal pupil varies across schools with mainly WC schools valuing obedience while mainly MC schools value smarts.
