INTERNAL Class Differences

Question 1

What are he 5 mains factors that contribute to class achievement levels?

Answer 1

Labelling
The SFP
Streaming
Pupil subcultures
Pupils class identities

Question 2

Becker (1971)

Answer 2

60 Chicago high schools - see how pupils fitted the ideal student stereotype
M/c closest to it

Question 3

Rist (1970)

Answer 3

Used information of Children’s background, put them in separate groups -
M/c ‘tigers’ (closest, greater encouragement)
W/c ‘cardinals’ & ‘clowns’ (seated further away, lower level books)

Question 4

Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968)

Answer 4

SFP - chose children at random to ‘spurt’ (was untrue). A year later 47% of the individuals made significant progress

Question 5

What does gillborn and youdell (2001) say?

Answer 5

A to C economy Educational triage:

Teachers stereotype w/c and black students labelled them as hopeless cases = SFP and failure

Question 6

What does differentiation mean?

Answer 6

Teachers Categorising students as a result of their ability putting by them in different classes.
Schools deem more able = higher status

Lacey (1970)

Question 7

What does Polarisation mean?

Answer 7

The way people respond to streaming, two opposite poles (eg pro-school subculture & anti-school subculture)

Question 8

What is a pro-school and anti-school subculture?

Answer 8

Pro-school: High streamed pupils, successful.

Anti-school: low streams, low self-esteem, low status.

Question 9

Who want to abolish streaming and why?

Answer 9

Ball (1981)
Beachside comprehensive school:
Teaching mixed ability groups

Question 10

Criticism of the labelling theory:

Answer 10

Self-rejecting prophecy

Question 11

What does symbolic capital mean?

Answer 11

Status in school, deemed worth and vauled

Question 12

What does symbolic violence mean?

Answer 12

Less status and value within education

Question 13

What is nike identity?

Answer 13

Archer- Stems from symbolic violence - w/c to create selfworth, status and value. Their own subculture.
Girls: heterosexual feminine style

Question 14

Who talks about differentiations and polarisation?

Answer 14

Lacey (1970)

Question 15

What does Bourdieu state about self-exclusion?

Answer 15

W/c think places like oxbridge as being ‘not for the likes of us’.
Not being able to ‘fit in’
Comes from their habitus

Question 16

What does woods say about pupils responses to streaming?

Answer 16

Ingratiation: teachers pet
Ritualise: staying out of trouble
Retreatism: daydreaming and mucking around
Rebellion: rejection of everything the school stands for