Education And Methods In Context Flashcards
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Who experimented with the self fulfilling prophecy and what did they do?
Rosenthal and Jacobson demonstrated that teachers who label their students based on assumption often leads to the students internalizing these ideas and they become true, known as the self fulfilling prophecy. In a state primary school in California, they gave teachers false information about the IQ scores of students and soon the teachers treating the students in accordance with the numbers led to the numbers becoming true
What are the other names for the new right?
- Neo liberals
- Market liberals
Hypotheses vs aims who favours what?
Positivists favour hypothesis as it is scientific
Interpretivists favour aims as it allows the research to be guided by the participants
When was marital rape ruled illegal?
1991 through the court of appeal
Why do not many report marital rape?
Many are intimidated to due to fear and embarrassment
What is a statistic on unreported marital rape?
In 2017 nearly a third of victims (31%) did not tell anyone about their experience (office of national statistics)
What does bourdieu argue the education system is designed to do?
Maintain class inequalities rather than provide equal opportunity
Reasons for the transition from segregated conjugal roles to joint conjugal roles:
Improved living standards
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Labour-saving consumer goods
3
The decline in the extended family
4
Greater social mobility
5
Equality for women
Who argues that society is based on three interlocking systems that drive capitalism forward; The economic system, the political system and the ideological system?
Louis Althusser
What is the term that refers to the study of human populations?
Demography
How were pupils assigned in the Jacobson and Rosenthal study?
Random
Reasons for the underachievement of some ethnic groups:
Social class differences
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Racism
3
Language differences
4
Teacher expectation
5
Anti-school subcultures
6
Ethnocentrism
Who views the family as an ideological state apparatus, passing on the acceptance of the ruling class ideology and damping down social conflict?
Althusser
Who claims that education only promotes the values of powerful groups?
Marxists
Who did the UK government commission to conduct a report into the use of resources and labour within the NHS in the 80s?
Roy griffiths
Margaret Thatcher’s government?
- Policies were intended to reduce dependancy on the welfare state
- The new right perspective was highly influential
- Policies were intended to encourage nuclear families and self reliance
What is the economic system of the modern era?
Capitalism
Influence of the New Right on education policy in the UK:
Allowing schools to be run more independently (e.g. academies and free schools)
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Wider parental choice
3
Competition between schools (e.g. league tables and marketing)
What can affect a sociologist’s choice of topic to study?
When
values in society change, the type of research that sociologists undertake also changes.
For example the increase of feminism in 1960’s led to further research on gender equality.
Who concluded that teachers initially evaluate pupils in relation to a stereotype of the ‘ideal pupil’ (e.g. conformist, hard-working, etc.)
Howard Becker (1971)
What was the tripartite system?
In the tripartite system, access to one of three different types of schools was through the 11plus(+) exam which potentially disadvantaged working class children
How do functionalists view education?
Functionalists view education as one component within a larger societal whole.
Which is an example of a practical issue that must be considered in the planning of sociological research?
The time and funding available
Who found that schools tend to divide pupils into three groups based on how well they expect them to do, known as the “educational triage”?
Gillbourn and Youdel
