sociologists for ethnicity

Question 1

INTERNAL

GILLBORN & YOUDELL - racial stereotyping

Answer 1

• there is negative labelling of black boys
• racial stereotyping
• high exclusion rates
• placed in PRUs
• placed in lower sets

Question 2

INTERNAL

CECILE WRIGHT - asian pupil observations

Answer 2

• asian students seen as a ‘problem’ that teachers could ignore
• perceived as having poor english
• lack of respect to cultural traditions
• mispronunciation of names etc

Question 3

INTERNAL

ARCHER - pupil identities

Answer 3

• pupil identities based on teacher stereotypes
• ideal pupil: white, middle class, achieves through effort and ability, masculine
• pathologized pupil: asian, plodder, asexual, feminine
• demonised pupil: white/black working class, peer led, unmotivated, unintelligent

Question 4

INTERNAL

FULLER - responses to racism

Answer 4

• female responses to racism and negative labels
• positive response as they supported each other and achieved academic success

Question 5

INTERNAL

MIRZA - teacher racism

Answer 5

• overt racist = deliberately racist
• colour blind = see students as equal but in practice allow racism to go unchallenged
• liberal chauvinists = low expectations from black students
• females ignored teachers as a way to avoid the racism

Question 6

INTERNAL

SEWELL - male responses to racist stereotypes

Answer 6

• rebels
• conformists
• innovators
• retreatists
• rebels were the smallest group, but the most common teacher stereotype

Question 7

INTERNAL

what do TROYNA & WILLIAMS say is in the way schools operate?

Answer 7

institutional racism

Question 8

INTERNAL

GILLBORN - critical race theory

Answer 8

• locked in inequality
• institutional racism is deep rooted into the education system
• lack of access to opportunities

Question 9

INTERNAL

COARD - ethnocentric curriculum

Answer 9

too much focus on british history / christianity / english literature etc

Question 10

INTERNAL

GILLBORN - model minorities

Answer 10

• argues that seeing indian/chinese pupils as model minorities is an ideological function to cover up institutional racism
• model minority = a group of people who have experienced prejudice and discrimination but who have succeeded without violence or confrontations of white people

Question 11

EXTERNAL

MOYNIHAN - family structures

Answer 11

higher % of single parents amongst black caribbean families - opposite for asian families

Question 12

EXTERNAL

PRYCE - resistance to racism

Answer 12

• asian families are more resistant to racism so therefore have a stronger culture
• black caribeean culture was devastated through colonialism / slavery - loss of language/religion/family structures etc

Question 13

EXTERNAL

SEWELL - street gangs

Answer 13

• black boys have a lack of fatherly nurturing and ‘tough love’
• in this absence, boys find ‘perverse loyalty and love’ in street gangs
• negative role models

Question 14

EXTERNAL (CRITICISM)

GILLBORN - criticism of external issues

Answer 14

argues underachievement is down to institutional racism found in the education system and not home life

Question 15

EXTERNAL

LUPTON - discipline in asian families

Answer 15

• discipline found in asian families is very similar to that found in schools (respect for adults/higher expectations relating to discipline)

Question 16

EXTERNAL

DRIVER - strong female role models

Answer 16

black caribbean families offer a strong, female role model to young girls - strong independent women

Question 17

EXTERNAL (CRITICISM)

KEDDIE - victim blaming

Answer 17

cultural deprivation arguments are victim blaming - schools are ethnocentric and focus too much on white british culture

Question 18

EXTERNAL

PALMER - poverty line

Answer 18

many ethnic minority families live below the poverty line - face discrimination for employment

Question 19

EXTERNAL

MODOOD - fsm

Answer 19

chinese children claiming FSM do better than white children not claiming FSM