Key Sociologists

Question 1

What did Rosenthal and Jacobson’s study show about teacher expectations?

Answer 1

A: Teachers’ expectations can lead to changes in student performance-self-fulfilling prophecy.

Question 2

What was the key finding of Willis’s Learning to Labour?

Answer 2

A: Working-class boys created an anti-school subculture and accepted manual work as their future.

Question 3

What subcultures did Sewell identify in Black Caribbean boys?

Answer 3

A: Conformists, Innovators, Retreatists, Rebels-showing not all respond to racism/stereotyping
the same.

Question 4

What did Sewell argue was a bigger barrier than racism for Black students?

Answer 4

A: Lack of father figures and the influence of peer pressure and ‘hyper-masculine’ role models. (What’s a father, what’s that)