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Functionalism: What is Social Solidarity?

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  • Durkheim: education creates a feeling of being part of a wider community (e.g. trips
    -🟥 ethnocentric biases
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Functionalism: What is Secondary Socialisation?

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  • Parsons: Schools pass on the norms and values of society (meritocracy
  • 🟥 Marxists: meritocracy is a myth
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Functionalism: What is Sifting and Sorting?

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  • Davies + Moore: society puts people into jobs based on ability + effort (e.g doctors = high pay)
    -🟥 Ball: jobs are based on class
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Functionalism: What are Specialist Skills?

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  • Durkheim: Schools teach students the necessary skills for the workplace (e.g. medicine for doctors)
    -🟥 Wolf review: ⅕th of 16-19 yr olds doing courses that don’t lead to HE
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Functionalists: What is The Bridge?

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  • Parsons: Schools bridges the gap between home and society (e.g. ascribed vs achieved status
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Marxism: What is social control?

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  • Althusser: School is an ISA used to brainwash the proletariat into false class consciousness
    -🟥 Functionalists: hardwork = status
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Marxism: What is Secondary Socialisation?

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  • Bowles + Gintis: myth of meritocracy
    -🟥 Functionalism
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Marxism: What are Specialist Skills?

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  • Bowles + Gintis: School creates passive + docile workers through correspondence principle (e.g. hierarchy + dress code
    -🟥 PM: creative + flexible workers
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Marxism: what is Sifting and Sorting?

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  • Ball: jobs/sets are chosen on father’s class
    -🟥 WC can go uni
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Feminism: what is social control?

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  • Male gaze + double standards
    -🟥Funct: Girls are suited to some jobs
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Feminism: what is Secondary Socialisation?

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  • Girls = passive + communicative
  • Boys = ambitious, aim for top jobs
    -🟥 Marxism = class not gender
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Feminism: what is Sifting and Sorting?

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  • Girls do feminine subjects (drama)
  • Boys do masculine subjects (maths)
    -🟥 GIST and WISE
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Feminism: what are Specialist Skills?

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  • Girls = expressive role (caring)
  • Boys = instrumental role (breadwinner)
  • 🟥PM: girls now have choice
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Class + DA: What is parental interest?

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  • Douglas: WC parents less likely to attend parents evening
  • 🟥 some parents may feel uncomfortable
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Class + DA: What is cultural capital?

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  • Bourdieu: experiences + values that can be traded for educational success
    -🟥 Keddie: Difference not deprivation
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Class + DA: What are attitudes and values?

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  • Sugarman: WC have values that hold them back (individualism vs collectivism, immediate vs delayed)
    -🟥 PM: no clear difference
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Class + DA: What are speech codes?

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  • Bernstein: elaborated vs restricted, 3Ts
    -🟥 Only studied 2 boys
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Class + DA: What is labelling?

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  • Rosenthal + Jacobson: random 20% spurters, greater IQ gain
    -🟥 Fuller + SNP
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Class + DA: What is setting and streaming?

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  • Ball: Jobs/sets based on class of father
    -🟥Outdated
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Class + DA: What are subcultures?

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  • Willis: Learnig to labour
  • Lacey: polarisation
    -🟥 small sample
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Class + DA: what is Marketisation + A-C economy?

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  • Gillborn + Youdell: Schools priorities 5x A-C
  • Bartlett: Cream skimming
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🟣Gender + DA: What is the impact of feminism?

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  • McRobbies Magazines: 70s-90s = emphasis on careers
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🟣Gender + DA: What are changing ambitions?

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  • Sharpe’s interviews: 70s - 90s, girls wanted more careers
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🟣Gender + DA: What are changes in families?

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  • Divorce, cohabitation, single mothers 📈 = more need to succeed
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🟣Gender + DA: What are changes in women's employment?
- 1971 - 2013 = 14% increase in employment
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🟣Gender + DA: What are equal opportunity policies?
- GIST and WISE
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🟣Gender + DA: What are positive role models?
- Female teachers in schools have increased
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🟣Gender + DA: How has coursework benefitted girls?
- Mitsos + Browne: girls are more attentive
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🟣Gender + DA: What is teacher labelling?
- Abraham: teachers expect bad behaviour from boys
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🔵Gender + DA: What are boys' poorer literacy skills?
- Mitsos + Browne: Mothers more likely to read to children than fathers
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🔵Gender + DA: What are unrealistic expectations?
- Francis: boys are more likely to have unattainable aspirations (e.g. footballer)
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🔵Gender + DA: What is the decline in traditional male jobs?
Mitsos + Browne: decreased manual labour jobs leads to "crisis of masculinity"
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🔵Gender + DA: What is the feminisation of education?
- Sewell: Coursework benefits girls, curriculum should be more adventurous -🟥 controlled assessments
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🔵Gender + DA: What is labelling?
- Francis: boys get more attention because they're disruptive -> SFP -🟥 Fuller SNP
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🔵Gender + DA: What are laddish subcultures
- Mac an Ghaill: Macho lads were disruptive and abusive
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Ethnicity + DA: What are attitudes + values
- Driver ans Ballad: Asian work ethic
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Ethnicity + DA: what is family structure
- Sewell: black families have single mothers, black boys look for perverse love in gangs
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Ethnicity + DA: What are linguistic abilities?
Berieter + Englemann: black students use inadequate language
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Ethnicity + DA: What is material deprivation
- Pakistanis 3x more likely to be in poorest ⅕th of population -🟥 pupil premium
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Ethnicity + DA: What are racialised expectations?
- Sewell: rebels + conformists -🟥 Fuller SNP
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Ethnicity + DA: What is institutional racism?
- Hatcher: racist bullying was low priority - 🟥Equality Act 2010
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Ethnicity + DA: What is Marketisation and selection?
- Indian + Chinese students cream skimmed
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Ethnicity + DA: What is the assessment game?
- Gillborn: base assessments to EYFS profile
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What affects class + Subject choice
- **Rosenthal and Jacobson**: Labelling - **Marxism**: status of vocational education (second rate) - **Sugarman**: Attitudes and values
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Gender + Subject choice: What are Male peer groups?
- Mac an Ghaill: Macho lads
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Gender + Subject choice: What is teachers + Discipline (Francis)
- Girls are expected to be quiet and conformist
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Gender + Subject choice what is verbal abuse (Francis)
Boys dominate classrooms and belittle girls
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Gender + Subject choice: What are hyper heterosexual feminine identities?
Archer: girls gain symbolic capital hyper heterosexual feminine identities
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Gender + Subject choice: what two terms describe women being objectified
- Male gaze - Sexual double standards
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