Class + DA: Internal

Question 1

What are the ideas around labelling and self-fulfilling prophecies?

Answer 1

• Becker believed that labels and characteristics placed on students based on class impact their educational achievement

Question 2

What sociologists studied labelling and self-fulfilling prophecies

Answer 2

• Becker: After interviewing 60 Chicago teachers, he found that the “ideal” student had middle class values
• Rosenthal and Jacobson: After labelling a random 20% of students as “spurters”, they found it created SFP as spurters showed greater gains in IQ

Question 3

What are the evaluations of labelling and self-fulfilling prophecies?

Answer 3

• No classroom interactions were observed
• Non spurters can be negatively impacted
• Fuller’s study

Question 4

What are the ideas around setting and streaming?

Answer 4

Ball found that the job of a student’s father impacted their bands/sets

Question 5

Which sociologist studied setting and streaming?

Answer 5

Ball: he banded 3 groups of students in a comprehensive school
- Band 1 = viewed as hardworking
- Band 3 = viewed as troublesome, led to deterioration of their behaviour

Question 6

What are the evaluations of setting and streaming?

Answer 6

School sets are no longer based on our father’s occupation therefore it’s outdated

Question 7

What are the ideas around marketisation policies?

Answer 7

Competition between schools places middle class students at a disadvantage

Question 8

What are the 2 main studies of marketisation policies?

Answer 8

• Gilborn and Youdell: the A-C economy focuses on accepting students with higher grades
• Educational triage: students on the edge of A-C grades are given more attention, lower than D = hopeless cases

Question 9

What are the evaluations of marketisation policies?

Answer 9

• External fear of debt is what stops them getting into the top schools
• Feminists argue gender is more influential

Question 10

What are the ideas around subcultures?

Answer 10

The social groups that middle class students fall into places them at a disadvantage

Question 11

What sociologists studied subcultures?

Answer 11

• Lacey: Differentiation + polarisation
• Willis: Learning to labour, 12 WC lads

Question 12

What are the evaluations of subcultures?

Answer 12

• Fuller: self negating prophecy
• External: lack of parental interest