What Sociologists Say- Ethnic Differences Flashcards
(27 cards)
Bereiter and Englemann
Lang spoken by wc black American families is inedequate.
Children who do not speak english at home may be held back.
Gillborn and mirza
Indian pupils do very well despite not having english as their first language
Moynihan
Many black families are headed by a lone mother where she struggles financially in the absence of a male breadwinner
Pryce
Black Caribbean culture is less resistant to racism leading to a low self esteem
Sewell
Not the absence of fathers but a lack of fatherly nurturing or “tough love”. Many black boys are subject to anti educational peer group pressure
Gillborn- family structure
Argues it is not peer pressure but institutional racism within the system which leads to their failure
Sewell (Asian fams)
Asian and Chinese students benefit from supportive families and placing high emphasis on education
Lupton
Ethnic minorities are more likely to see education as a way up in society
McCulloch
Surveyed 16,000 pupils and found ethnic minorities were more likely to aspire to go uni compared to white pupils
Driver
Ignores positive effects ethnicity can have on achievement. black Caribbean families girls have a positive role model of a strong independent women
Palmer
Half of Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers earn under £7 an hour compared to only a quarter of whites
Ethnic minorities are 3x more likely to be homeless
Madood
Found white children from low income families generally dod less well, the effects of low income were much less for other groups
Wood et al
Sent three of the same job applications to 1000 jobs with names associated with ethnic groups. Only 1 in 16 ethnic minority applicants received an interview compared to 1 in white applicants
Gillborn and Mirza internal factors
Black children were the highest achieving on entry to primary school, but by GCSE they had the worst results of any ethnic group
Gillborn and Mirza internal factors
Black children were the highest achieving on entry to primary school, but by GCSE they had the worst results of any ethnic group
Gillborn and Youdell discipline
Teachers had rationalised expectations, conflict is a result of racial stereotypes
Wright asian pupils
Teachers assumed asians would have a poor grasp of english so left them out of group discussions
Archer pupil identities
Ideal pupil- white,middle class
Pathologised- asian deserving poor, over achievers
Demonised- black or white working class, culturally deprived and underacheivers
Fuller a03
Studied a group of yr 11 black girls
I stead if accepting negative stereotypes the channeled there anger into achieving educational success
Sewell boys responses
The rebels
The conformists
The retreatist
The innovators
Critical race theory
Racism is an ingrained feature of society. Racism is not just intentional actions of individuals but institutional racism
Moor and davenport- marketisation
Selection procedures can leas to ethnic segregation with minority groups failing to get into better secondary schools
David- ethnocentric
The national curriculum is a specifically british curriculum which ignores non European languages, literature and music
Coard- ethnocentric
Teach how the british brought civilisation to the primitive people they colonised. This leads to black children to have low self esteem
