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Question 1

Bernstein + Young

Cultural Deprivation

Answer 1

Educational toys:
MC mothers more like to buy equipment to stimulate childs intellectual development.
WC mothers lack resources or purchase ‘wrong’ equipment, child starts school without skills needed to progress

Use of income

1967

Question 2

Bernstein

Cultural Deprivation

Answer 2

Restricted code- WC, limited vocab, unfinished, grammatically simple, predictable, context-bound
Elaborated- MC, wider vocab, grammatically complex, varied, context-free. Good for analysing and reasoning , early socialisation allows children to feel ‘at home’ in education

Speech codes

1975

Question 3

Douglas

Cultural Deprivation

Answer 3

Parental interest:
WC place less value on education, therefore less abitious and encouraging for their child, less visits to school means that childs progress isn’t discussed. As a result child has less motivation to succeed.

Parents education

1964

Question 4

Becker

Labelling

Answer 4

-Labelling
-60 Chicago high schools
-Teacher judgement in relation to ‘ideal pupil’
-MC closest, WC furthest

1971

Question 5

Rosenthal + Jacobson

Labelling

Answer 5

Selfulfilling Prophecy
-20% labelled ‘spurters’
-47% ‘spurters’ showed academic improvement after 1 year
- Represents how powerful positive teacher interaction with students can be

1968

Question 6

Ball

Streaming crit

Answer 6

Abolishing streaming
-Beachside comp teaches through mixed ability
-Through abolishment of banding polarised subcultures removed
However differentiation still occured, teachers still catergorised pupils, positive lables (usually on MC students) reflected in better grades

1981

Question 7

Lacey

Streaming

Answer 7

Differentiation and Polarisation
-Differentiation- Process of catergorisation through percieved ability, attitude or ability into streams
-Polarisation- the response of students who move to one of two poles/ subcultures (pro or anti-school)

1970

Question 8

Fuller

Labelling crit

Answer 8

Determinism
-Wrongly assumes pupils who are labelled have no choice but to accept and fulfill prophecy

1984

Criticism- labelling

Question 9

Bartlett

Market

Answer 9

League Tables
-Cream-skimming -schools can be more selective
-Silt-shifting -good schools can avoid taking undesirable students as it damages position

1993

Question 10

Leech + Campos

Market

Answer 10

Selection by mortgage
Fake address for catchment appeal
Friends for admissions benefit

Question 11

Gerwitz

Market

Answer 11

Parental choice
-14 London secondary schools
-Type of parent determined how far they could excersise their choice
-Privaledged skill chooser- MC
-Disconnected-local chooser- WC
-Semi-skilled chooser- WC (higher aspiration)

1995