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Durkheim

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Founding father of functionalism

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What do Bowles and Gintis say about meritocracy?

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It’s a myth

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What does Louis Althusser say about social control?

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The education system is an ideological state apparatus used to brainwash people.

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What do Bowles and Gintis say ahout the education system?

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It’s unfair and keeps the poor in place.

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STUDY - What did Willis do?

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Studied a group of 12 WC boys in an anti school subculture

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What is the key study for the new right?

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Chubb and Moe (1990)

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What does Tony Sewell say about feminisation in schools?

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It’s too feminised and coursework is an advantage and he believes there should be outdoor adventure to give boys an advantage.

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What does Willis believe about boys identity?

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Physical work was essential to development of a sense of identity to boys.

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STUDY - What did McRobbie do with magazines?

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She did a comparisons of magazines from the 70s and 90s

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What did Sue Sharpe do with interviews?

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She interviewed girls from the 70s and 90s to show difference in ambitions.

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What does Abraham say about boys behaviour?

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They are badly behaved in class.

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What does Francis say about teacher expectations of boys?

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Teachers will have lower expectations of boys.

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What does Mac and Ghail say about teachers expectations?

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They have radicalised expectations that will affect students

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What did Gillborn and Youdell find out about the A - C economy?

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The teachers would mainly focus on those studnets with a grade C at GCSE

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What does Hatcher find out about racism?

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Schools won’t deal with racism

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What do Sanders and Horn find out about marking?

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Black children will do worse when teachers are marking their work

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What does Gillborn say about teachers?

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They make assumptions about the ability of sone students to - New IQ’ism

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What does Monyihan say about black families?

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They are headed by lone mothers and their children lack adequate care

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What does Sewell say about fathers?

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That it isn’t the absence of fathers as role models but the lack of fatherly nurturing

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What does Gillborn say about the institution?

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The institution failed black boys

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What do Driver and Ballard say about Asian families?

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They have high aspirations

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What does Lupton say about Asian families?

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Respectful behaviour was expected from children towards adults

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What does Berieter and Engelmann say about black families?

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Low income black families have ungrammatical, disjointed and incapable slang and ideas

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What does Marilyn Howard say about poor homes?

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People from poor homes are more likely to have lower vitamins and minerals

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What did Callender and Jackson do with questionnaires?
They have 2000 questionnaires and found out that WC are 5x less likely to apply to a university compared to a MC student
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What did Reay find out with universities?
WC students will pick local universities to save money by living at home and will get a part time job to help
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What did Jesson and Gray find out about free school meals?
There is a similarity between free school meals and low GCSE grades
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What did Bernstein and Young find out about toys?
MC mothers will buy educational toys for their children
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What does Tanner say about schools?
Schools are costly as parents have to pay for uniform, transport etc
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STUDY - What did Douglas do?
He did a study with over 5000 British kids and found that MC parents will take a greater interest and discuss their child’s lives
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What does Feinstein say about education?
Parents own education is an important factor in children’s achievement
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What does Hubbs Tait Et Al say about parents language?
MC parents uses language that challenges their child’s ability and understanding
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What does Feinstein say about educated families?
They are more likely to use intellectual language and encourage their kids and will praise them
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What does Bernstein talk about?i
Elaborated and restricted code and the 3 T’s (textbooks, teachers, texts) and are in elaborated code so WC disadvantaged
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STUDY - what did Bernstein find out?
He did a study on two 5 year old boys one MC and one WC and found that the MC described the picture better than the WC
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STUDY - what did Howard Becker do?
He interviewed 60 teachers from Chicago to find out their ideal student
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STUDY - what did Hempel Jorgensen do?
Studies 2 primary schools and WC school has discipline problems and ideal student was passive and quite and MC school has no behaviour issues and idek pupil has good academic ability
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STUDY - what did Rosenthal and Jacobson do?
They picked some students and named them ‘spurters’ and tested their IQ and they came back later and found out their IQ has improved because teacher started paying attention to them.
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STUDY - what did Margaret Fuller do?
Did a study on black girls who self negated their label
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STUDY - what did Stephen Ball do?
He examines a school where they pupils were placed into three bands
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What did Bartlett find out?
Popular schools (cream skimming and higher ability students) and leats popular schools (silt shifting and lower ability students)
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What did Max and Ghail found about macho lads?
They were dismissive and hard working WC boys
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What did Haywood and Mac and Ghail say about male teachers?
They told boys off for behaving ‘like girls’ and teases them when they got lower marks than girls
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What does Francis say about girls?
They are quiet and conformist
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What does Mac and Ghail say about the make gaze?
It’s a form of surveillance where dominant masculinity is reinforced and femininity is devalued
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What does Francis say about boys?
They dominate classroom discussions and belittle girls who contribute
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What does Skegg say about the WC identity?
That caring is a crucial part of it
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What did Archer find out about popularity with girls?
They gained popularity by performing a hyper heterosexual identity (feminine)
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What did Currie et al find out about girls competing?
Girls have to balance competing by staying loyal to females and competing for boys in dating culture
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What did Reay find out about presenting an asexual identity?
They will be labelled as nerds and excluded by both genders
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What did Francis say about MC girls?
The MC girls (nerds) will respond by labelling WC girls as ‘chavs’
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What did Archer find out about WC pupils?
He saw that interactions between WC pupils identities and this produces underachievement
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What did Archer find out about how WC pupils changed themselves?
They will change how they look and talked and their appearance to be successful in education
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STUDY - what did Ingram do?
Studies 2 groups of WC catholic boys from the same deprived neighbourhood and one group passed their 11+ exam and went grammer school while the other failed and went secondary
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What did Evans find out about oxbridge?
WC girls who applied there felt a sense of hidden barriers of not fitting and strong attachment to their locality
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What did Reay find out about elite universities?
WC pupils would self exclude themselves from these universities which narrows their option and limits their success
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What does Sugarman say about the attitudes of WC and MC
The different attitudes stems from the different nature of manual and non - manual jobs
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What did Kelly find out about science?
It is seen as a boys subject because science teachers are often male and will dominate the lab
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What did Colley say about computer science?
It’s a boys subject because you are working with machines and doesn’t involve group with which girls like
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What did Leonard say about all girls school?
Girls who went to an all girls highschool were more likely to pick maths or science A level

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