Student Responses To The Experience Of Schooling: Subcultures

Question 1

Differentiation and polarization

Answer 1

Differentiation- Teachers value hard work, good behaviour, exam success; judge, rank and categorise students into streams and sets based on this.
Polarisation- students are divided into 2 opposing groups; top streams who conform and do well; those in lower streams who are labelled as failures= leads there to be anti and pro school subcultures

Question 2

Pro-school subculture

Answer 2

Group organised around a set of values, attitudes and behaviour which generally conform to academic aims, ethos and rules of school.

Question 3

Anti-school subculture

Answer 3

Not only has some differences from dominant culture, but is also in active opposition to it.

Question 4

Rosenthal and Jacobson study (1968)

Answer 4

Told a teacher that a handful of the kids in their class were bright and could be expected to make good process, even though they were no different ability-wise to the others in the class. Did make good process compared to the other children in the class eventually due to labelling.