Social Class Internal Factors

Question 1

What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 1

This is when the labels put onto students become internalised and believed by the student and leads to them underachieving

Question 2

What is the ideal student according to Becker?

Answer 2

MC students but especially girls

Question 3

Who carried out the SFP IQ test?

Answer 3

Rosenthal and Jacobson

Question 4

What was the results of the SFP test?

Answer 4

the bloomers had made more progress than the rest of the students

this was due to the labels from teachers being more positive which incentivised harder work

Question 5

What sociologists came up with the educational triage?

Answer 5

Gillborn & Youdell

Question 6

What is the educational triage?

Answer 6

3 streams that students are placed into by teachers

Question 7

What are the 3 groups in the educational triage?

Answer 7

MC students labelled as university hopefuls

Some MC and WC are borderline C-D so given helps

Hopeless cases - mainly WC

Question 8

How does keddie argue setting influences Achievement?

Answer 8

Higher sets offer more challenging work

Lower sets may have lower entry exams which can limit grades

Question 9

How does setting and streaming impact Subcultures?

Answer 9

Those in bottom sets do not get any status from their education so form anti school subcultures

This offers gaining status through anti-school activity

Question 10

Who researched anti-school subculture?

Answer 10

Ball

Mac an Ghaill

Question 11

What sociologist came up with nike identities?

Answer 11

Archer

Question 12

What is a habitus?

Answer 12

The way people respond and interpret society

Question 13

how does habitus impact achievement?

Answer 13

those with WC habitus go against the MC school habitus meaning they do not fir it

they then turn to other subcultures and are negatively labelled

Question 14

What sociologist came up with Polarisation and Differentiation?

Answer 14

Lacey

Question 15

What is Polarisation and Differentiation?

Answer 15

Polarisation - when pupils respond to streaming by either moving to a pro-school subculture or an anti-school subculture

Differentiation - a form of streaming, those who are placed in higher streams gain a higher status, a way of differentiating students

Question 16

What did Hargreaves find about teacher labelling?

Answer 16

That students react differently based on positive vs negative labels - this is also based on behaviour

Students in lower streams where labelled as no hopers and failed twice , once by being in the failing school and second by being put in the lower stream - students were regarded as ‘worthless louts’ by many teachers

Students who had been labelled as troublemakers tended to seek each other out and formed a non-conformist delinquent subculture in which they gained status through breaking school rules

Question 17

What was Willis’ research on Labelling?

Answer 17

research with 12 working class lads in one comprehensive school in the Midlands - formed a counter school culture

The lads saw school and academic learning as pointless to their future lives as factory workers.

So spent their time messing around and resisting any attempt to learn anything.

Status was earned within the group by disrupting lessons and doing as little work as possible

The ‘lads’ were very much a traditional, working-class macho subculture, and they defined the typically middle class students who obeyed the school rules as ‘earoles’ because they were always listening to the teacher, they also saw these students as a bit cissy, in contrast to their identification with ‘proper’ masculine working class manual-labour.