Theorists

Question 1

Althusser 1970

Answer 1

ISA & RSA
Marxist
Education reproduces inequalities

Question 2

Bowles and Ginits

Answer 2

Children are moulded into capitalism through the hidden curriculum

Question 3

Bourdieu 1977

Answer 3

Working class are duped into accepting failure and limited social mobility through the myth of meritocracy

Question 4

Social action theory is..

Answer 4

The idea that the individuals actions and behaviour affect society as a whole, conscious thought and self awareness

Question 5

Labelling theory

Answer 5

How others view you can impact how you see yourself

Question 6

Bourdieu 1977

Answer 6

Working class are duped into accepting failure and limited social mobility
Education was designed for the middle class

Question 7

Bernstein 1971

Answer 7

Speech codes

Question 8

Sugarman 1970

Answer 8

People in working class prefer immediate gratification 
And do not believe working hard will make them succeed

Question 9

Douglas 1964

Answer 9

The most important factor in educational success is parental encouragement

Question 10

Douglas 1964 living conditions

Answer 10

Children with unsatisfactory living conditions performed worse in all forms of achievement

Question 11

Durkheim

Answer 11

Founding functionalist father

Invented term value consensus

Question 12

Durkheim

Socialisation + ??? = 🔑☮️☯️

Answer 12

Socialisation + social control (sanctions and discipline) = the key for peace and stability
Common goal = value consensus

Question 13

Organic analogy BY?

Answer 13

Parsons

Question 14

Merton

Answer 14

Internal parsons criticism

Question 15

Parsons - institutions have specific functions

Merton - ?

Answer 15

There are functional alternatives

Question 16

Parsons - all society works together - functional unity

Merton ?

Answer 16

Functional independence, if one fails all won’t

Question 17

Parsons - every institution is functional (universal functionalism)
Merton -?

Answer 17

Some institutions can be dysfunctional and fail the individual

Question 18

Anthony Giddens

Answer 18

Structuration theory - social action and structuralism co-exist, one could not without the other
E.g no school without pupils
no pupils without school

Question 19

Craib

Answer 19

structuration is not a theory is it too descriptive

Question 20

Acher

Answer 20

Giddens underestimates the capacity of the structures to resist the change
Actions don’t always work
E.g London riots

Question 21

Mead & explain

Answer 21

‘Me and I’
Me- how other people see you
I - how you see yourself

Question 22

Cooley

Answer 22

Looking glass self

Question 23

Beckers

Answer 23

Labelling theory

Question 24

Fuller

Answer 24

Year 11 black girls rejected their label and were successful but still subcultures

Question 25

Willis

Answer 25

Working class subcultures - boys going to work in factories asap
-masculinity in crisis

Question 26

Rist

Answer 26

Middle class based clothes and home info tigers then Lower clowns, tigers were encouraged more and did better

Question 27

Goffman

Answer 27

Dramatugical model
We are actors with many masks
No true self
Impression management

Question 28

Edmund hussel

Answer 28

Phenomenology - the world makes sense because we impose meaning
‘Common sense knowledge’ to understand
E.g four legs, furniture must be table

Question 29

Garfinkle

Answer 29

Ethnomethodology - criticises phenomenology, meanings potentially always unclear

Question 30

Gramsci

Answer 30

Hegemony of ruling class is never complete because we can see through the ideology

Question 31

Revolution according to gramsci

Answer 31

If the prolateriat constructs a counter hegemonic bloc they propose leadership of society - produce own organic intellectual

Question 32

Leyotard

Answer 32

We cannot prove that thing are true