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Kelly
Education
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Science is packaged as a boy’s subject

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Colley
Education
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Subject choices are negatively impacted by: learning environment, subject preferences and perceptions of gender roles

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Skelton
Education
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‘Hidden curriculum’ influences subject choices

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Mitsos and Browne
Education
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Teachers are more lenient towards males

Hard on girls who are sen as breaking both the school rules and gender norms- ‘doubly deviant’

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Adkins
Workplace/ income
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Horizontal/ vertical segregation
Limited job options for women- used as sexual attraction
Men- mechanics
Women- caterers

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Sticky floors
Workplace/ income
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Women are stuck in lower job roles

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Leaky pipeline
Workplace/ income
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Women are discouraged from male dominated roles

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Glass ceiling
Workplace/ income
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Women are able to see the higher positions within the workplace but cannot access them

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Mac an Ghail
Workplace/ income
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The crisis of masculinity

Deindustrialisation and feminisation of the labour market has led to increased unemployment for men

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Fawcett society
Workplace/ income
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Women make up 20% of directors on FTSE 100 brands and 11% of UK bank CEOs are women

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UK health and safety data
Workplace/ income
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Suggests that more than 95% of the 200 people killed in the workplace every year are men

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Stereotyping
Crime
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Basing your beliefs of someone on their gender

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Labelling
Crime
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When someone is associated with a certain stereotype based on their label which influences how they are treated

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Dark figure of crime
Crime
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Unreported rape and sexual assault

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Harding
Crime
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Street casino- young black Afro-Caribbean boys are more likely to be dragged into gangs

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British crime survey
Crime
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13% of girls aged 16-19 had experienced domestic abuse and only 7/100 rape cases reported to the police resulted in a conviction

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Messerschmidt
Crime
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The gang acts as a location for ‘doing masculinity’ which has been ‘accomplished’ and proven

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Home office
Crime
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Women are more likely than men to be victims of domestic violence
1 in 4 women experience domestic violence at some point in their lifetimes
6-10% of women experience it in a given year

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Double standard of ageing
Media
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Women are encouraged to prevent ageing at all costs but older men are accepted and represented in the media

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Ferguson
Media
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The cult of femininity is passed on through lads magazines where women are highly sexualised

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Billington
Media
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Women are represented as subordinate and men are represented as dominant in the media

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Hughes
Media
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Digital communication can help to reproduce patriarchy through sex exploitation such as bride trafficking and sex tourism. He calls this the ‘Dark Net’

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Demos study
Media
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Found extensive use of misogynistic language online and studied the amount of times this language was used on Twitter

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Life chances
Education
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A theory of the opportunities each individual has to improve his or her quality of life

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Cultural capital Education C
MC have more cultural capital than other classes
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Meritocracy Education C
Social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability
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Becker Education C
Argues that MC pupils are labelled as the ‘ideal pupil’, therefore teachers label them more positively leading to their educational achievement
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DFE (2012) Education C
Only 35% of students who receive FSM achieved 5 A*-C grades at GCSE compared to 62% of non-FSM students
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Willis Education C
WC lads knew working hard in education was pointless
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Social mobility Workplace/ income C
Movements between classes and you can change your class
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Saunders Workplace/ income C
Ability is inherited- MC+UC are more likely to be successful
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Goldthorpe Workplace/ income C
Increase in social mobility after WW2 is just evidence of more service sector jobs
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Milburn Workplace/ income C
‘Cosy club’ UK’s top jobs ‘disproportionately held by people from a narrow range of backgrounds’
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Scott Workplace/ income C
Social closure ensures UC maintains highest concentration of wealth- intermarriage, high culture, old boy network
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White collar crime Crime C
MC are just as likely to commit crime as WC (tax evasion) however will not be punished as harshly
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Murray Crime C
Single working mothers are more likely to raise children to become criminals and workshy
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Jacobson Crime C
3/4 children in custody have absent fathers 1/2 from deprived households 1/2 had to run away
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Graham and Bowling Crime C
MC children just as likely to be involved in crime but it’s a case of ‘who you know’ in order to get you out of trouble
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Walmsley Crime C
41% prisoners are from lowest classes
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Digital divide Media C
WC only use technology for entertainment
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Digital underclass Media C
WC do not have as much access to technology as UC+MC
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Boyle Media C
Media convergence- one device accesses media- power of advertising causes capitalism ideologies to spread
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Castells Media C
‘Information age’ benefit ruling elite- will have control over networks and information generated
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Conford + Robins Media C
Surveillance by companies target WC + pass on ruling class ideologies which benefits UC
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Mertens + D’Haenens Media C
Digital divide- Brussels Lower social classes= 81% used internet (entertainment) MC=94% used internet (boost knowledge)
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Institutional racism Education E
Organisation discriminate against certain ethnic groups
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Ethnocentric curriculum Education E
Curriculum board is specific to one ethnicity eg history- English history is taught in England
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Gillborn Education E
Black Afro-Caribbean boys in lower sets- limiting success- institutional racism, self-fulfilling prophecy
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Mirza Education E
Black Afro-Caribbean boys face negative labelling from teachers
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Coard Education E
‘Ethnocentric curriculum’ focuses on white British history
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Horizontal segregation Workplace/ income E
can only profess sideways in the workplace and cannot work to move upwards
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Concrete ceiling Workplace/ income E
Ethnic minorities face a solid barrier which prevents them from obtaining the top positions
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Ethnic penalty Workplace/ income E
Disadvantage faced by ethnic minorities in labour market compared to whites of the same age
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The Secret Policeman Workplace/ income E
Ethnographic study found evidence of institutional racism in the police force
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Clark and Drinkwater Workplace/ income E
Men from EMG in managerial jobs earn up to 25% less than their white colleagues
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Social Trends 2017 Crime E
Black=7x, Asian=3x more likely to be stopped and searched than white people
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Alexander Crime E
‘Myth of the Asian Gang’- moral panic by the media
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Phillips + Bowling Crime E
Police patrol EMG areas and over-represent them in crime statistics
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Tokenism Media E
Black people in TV are ‘token black characters’ and not meaningful characters
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Sewell Media E
Hypermasculinity, rapper male role models in the media
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Jhally Media E
EMG negatively stereotyped in media
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Hall Media E
The media shows basic representations . Ethnicity is viewed through the ‘white eye’
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Institutional ageism Workplace/ income A
Structures+laws in society discriminate against certain age groups eg elderly
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Barron+Norris Workplace/ income A
Dual labour market: Primary- middle aged people Secondary- youth and elderly
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The guardian Workplace/ income A
High youth unemployment- only 1 million jobs for young people have been lost since 2007
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Johnson Workplace/ income A
Institutional ageism in workplace- mistreat the elderly
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Ritzer Workplace/ income A
‘McJobs’- low status jobs with little training- held by young people
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Jacobson Crime A
young offenders were vulnerable and came from ‘complex backgrounds’
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ONS Crime A
Risk of being victim of murder or manslaughter in 2007/08 was highest for men 16+20 Young adults 16-19 most at risk of domestic abuse
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Griffin Crime A
Youths are dysfunctional, deviant and suffering a deficit
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Sontag Crime A
Double standard of ageing
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Carrigan+Szmigin Crime A
Elderly are negatively stereotyped in the media as ‘smelly’ and ‘incontinent’

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