Education: Topic 2 - Internal Factors, Class Flashcards
Key terms and Sociologists from Education: Topic 2 - Internal Factors, Class
What is labelling?
Assigning a stereotype/meaning/definition to an individual that e.g. labelling a student as bright or trouble maker
Who came up with Labelling
Becker
Tigers, Clowns and Cardinals study
Rist - Tigers were students sat near the front, middle class, Clowns and cardinals, two groups sat further away. Given lower level books
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
A prediction that comes true simply because it has been made. A label may become true because the student internalises it.
Who did the spurters study?
Rosenthal and Jacobsen
How did Fuller evaluate the SFP?
Year 11 black girls - they succeeded despite being negatively labelled.
What is streaming
Putting children into ability groups. Each class is then taught separately and can lead to an SFP
Who came up with Streaming?
Becker
Who can up with the A-C economy?
Gillborn and Youdell - found that students were put into the educational triarge - seen as People who will pass anyway, C/D borderline students, or hopeless cases.
What is a pupil subculture
A group of pupils who share the same norms and values that are different to societies. They may also behave the same and often emerge as a response to the way that pupils are labelled.
What are the three ideas that Lacey discusses?
Pro school/Anti school subcultures
Differentiation
Polarisation
Who found that abolishing streaming just lead to students being differentiated by other means, such as labelling?
Ball
What did Woods find about pupils responses to streaming?
- Integration - being teachers pet
- Ritualism - going through the motions
- Retreatism - daydreaming and disengaging
- Rebellion - acting out and rejecting school
What is a Nike Identity
where student find their identity and symbolic capital through Brands and reject educational capital
Who discussed Nike Identities?
Archer et al
