Education Sociologists

Question 1

Durkheim

Answer 1

Functionalists
- creating social solidarity
Teaching specialists skills

Question 2

Parsons

Answer 2

Functionalists
- meritocracy
- bridge between parents and school
- education helps with easier transition to wider society
- helps allocate pool to their future position in society

Question 3

Davis and Moore

Answer 3

Functionalists
- argue that education shifts and and sorts children according to their ability
- those who do the bets academically so the best in jobs

Question 4

Shultz

Answer 4

Functionalists
- developing of human capital

Question 5

Gerwitz

Answer 5

New Right
- competition between schools benefits teh middle class, who use cultural and economic capital, to gain access to more desirable schools

Question 6

Bowles and gintis

Answer 6

Marxists
- hidden curriculum
- education promotes myth of meritocracy

Question 7

Willis

Answer 7

Marxists
Lads

Question 8

Bourdie

Answer 8

Marxist
Middle class - pass on teh cultural capital

Question 9

Bernstein

Answer 9

Marxists
Speech codes

Question 10

Althusser

Answer 10

Ideological state apparatus
Indoctrination os teh capitalists values into pupils in schools

Question 11

Becker

Answer 11

Labelling

Question 12

Sharpes

Answer 12

Girls ambition drift represented in the magazines in teh 70s

Question 13

Jacksons

Answer 13

Interviews
Working - class boys think that education is irrelevant for them due to their future being already determined
Hegemonic masculinity

Question 14

Sugarman

Answer 14

• fatalism
• collectivism
  -immediate gratification
• present time orientation

Question 16

Evans

Answer 16

Qualitative research/ observation
Working class parents placed a very high value on edition and encourages to do well

Question 17

Smith et al

Answer 17

‘ barrier to learning’
- families are unable to afford school
- low income reduces thhe probability to affording computer
- older working -class students more likely to have to work part - time to support their studies

Question 18

Ball

Answer 18

Students are placed in different bands
- working class were tend to be put in lower band
- behaviour has changed due to lack of surveillance under teh pupils

Question 19

Hargreaves’s

Answer 19

Students from lower streams tend to be trouble makers

Question 20

Willis + Fuller

Answer 20

Lads and black girls

Question 21

Carrington

Answer 21

School environment became feminised

Question 22

Browne et al

Answer 22

Teachers are less critical with boys than with girls

Question 23

Coffey et al

Answer 23

Schools have always been patriarchal
Eduction reminded male - hierarchy

Question 24

Stanworth

Answer 24

Teachers gave more tine to boys and paid more attention to them

Question 25

Spender

Answer 25

Boys who questioned or challenged teh teachers were faced with respect while girls are criticised for it

Question 26

Colley

Answer 26

A level subjects for girls have impacted their career path

Question 27

Colley

Answer 27

Subject juice influenced forms outside such as family or peer

Question 28

Colley

Answer 28

Girls in the same sex school are twice likely to study math and other subjects likes this

Question 29

Bowker

Answer 29

Low income Americans lack of stands English is their barrier to progress in education

Question 30

Murray

Answer 30

Lack of father figure leads to underachievement

Question 31

Lipton

Answer 31

Asian students are more likely to be accepted din the school due to their behavioural patterns which tolerates older.

Question 32

Lawrence

Answer 32

Black pupils not underachieve not because of low self- esteem but because of the racism

Question 33

Noon

Answer 33

CV experiment ‘ Evan’s’ one the name that she used

Question 34

Gilbron

Answer 34

- teachers see black students as a threat - they often can intentially misinterpret their behaviours to portray it as threatening

Question 35

Wrights

Answer 35

- teachers labelled asian students - assumed that they would have poor level of English and left them out of class discussion or used simplistic language

Question 36

Mirra

Answer 36

Black girls studies like Fulelr but in this case girls underachieved - they tried to escape racism by not asking help from teh teachers or asking it from other ones

Question 37

Williams et al

Answer 37

British curriculum is ethnocentric

Question 38

Caard

Answer 38

British curriculum ignores other diversity - they talk about colonialism and portray themselves as primitive civilisation

Question 39

Gilborn

Answer 39

‘ model minority’ - Asians Indians who are seen as having positive attitudes to education

Question 40

Mariam

Answer 40

Marketisation created ‘ parentocracy ‘

Question 41

Whitty

Answer 41

New labour policies are cosmetic, as they emphasises privatisation