What Sociologists Say- Ethnic Differences

Question 1

Bereiter and Englemann

Answer 1

Lang spoken by wc black American families is inedequate.
Children who do not speak english at home may be held back.

Question 2

Gillborn and mirza

Answer 2

Indian pupils do very well despite not having english as their first language

Question 3

Moynihan

Answer 3

Many black families are headed by a lone mother where she struggles financially in the absence of a male breadwinner

Question 4

Pryce

Answer 4

Black Caribbean culture is less resistant to racism leading to a low self esteem

Question 5

Sewell

Answer 5

Not the absence of fathers but a lack of fatherly nurturing or “tough love”. Many black boys are subject to anti educational peer group pressure

Question 6

Gillborn- family structure

Answer 6

Argues it is not peer pressure but institutional racism within the system which leads to their failure

Question 7

Sewell (Asian fams)

Answer 7

Asian and Chinese students benefit from supportive families and placing high emphasis on education

Question 8

Lupton

Answer 8

Ethnic minorities are more likely to see education as a way up in society

Question 9

McCulloch

Answer 9

Surveyed 16,000 pupils and found ethnic minorities were more likely to aspire to go uni compared to white pupils

Question 10

Driver

Answer 10

Ignores positive effects ethnicity can have on achievement. black Caribbean families girls have a positive role model of a strong independent women

Question 11

Palmer

Answer 11

Half of Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers earn under £7 an hour compared to only a quarter of whites
Ethnic minorities are 3x more likely to be homeless

Question 12

Madood

Answer 12

Found white children from low income families generally dod less well, the effects of low income were much less for other groups

Question 13

Wood et al

Answer 13

Sent three of the same job applications to 1000 jobs with names associated with ethnic groups. Only 1 in 16 ethnic minority applicants received an interview compared to 1 in white applicants

Question 14

Gillborn and Mirza internal factors

Answer 14

Black children were the highest achieving on entry to primary school, but by GCSE they had the worst results of any ethnic group

Question 15

Gillborn and Mirza internal factors

Answer 15

Black children were the highest achieving on entry to primary school, but by GCSE they had the worst results of any ethnic group

Question 16

Gillborn and Youdell discipline

Answer 16

Teachers had rationalised expectations, conflict is a result of racial stereotypes

Question 17

Wright asian pupils

Answer 17

Teachers assumed asians would have a poor grasp of english so left them out of group discussions

Question 18

Archer pupil identities

Answer 18

Ideal pupil- white,middle class
Pathologised- asian deserving poor, over achievers
Demonised- black or white working class, culturally deprived and underacheivers

Question 19

Fuller a03

Answer 19

Studied a group of yr 11 black girls
I stead if accepting negative stereotypes the channeled there anger into achieving educational success

Question 20

Sewell boys responses

Answer 20

The rebels
The conformists
The retreatist
The innovators

Question 21

Critical race theory

Answer 21

Racism is an ingrained feature of society. Racism is not just intentional actions of individuals but institutional racism

Question 22

Moor and davenport- marketisation

Answer 22

Selection procedures can leas to ethnic segregation with minority groups failing to get into better secondary schools

Question 23

David- ethnocentric

Answer 23

The national curriculum is a specifically british curriculum which ignores non European languages, literature and music

Question 24

Coard- ethnocentric

Answer 24

Teach how the british brought civilisation to the primitive people they colonised. This leads to black children to have low self esteem

Question 25

Gillborn- assessment

Answer 25

Assesment are fixed to maintain dominant culture superiority, if black children do succeed assessment will be changed to re engineer failure

Question 26

Gillborn - new iqism

Answer 26

Where teachers make false assumptions about the nature of pupils ability or potential. The believe potential can be fixed and measured. I cant be measured

Question 27

Evans

Answer 27

We need to look at how ethnicity interacts with class and gender