Class + Subject Choices

Question 1

What is the status of vocational courses?

Answer 1

Vocational courses are viewed as “second rate education” as it produces passive and docile workers for manual jobs

Question 2

How do functionalists evaluate the status of vocational courses?

Answer 2

• Functionalists: meritocracy and role allocation is what pushes the WC into vocational courses
  
  • benefits society due to organic analogy

Question 3

What is teacher labelling?

Answer 3

Teachers tend to label the WC negatively which creates a self-fulfilling prophecy
- (Becker, Rosenthal and Jacobson, etc)

Question 4

What is the evaluation of teacher labelling?

Answer 4

Setting and streaming prevents the working class from achieving the grades that require them to make academic choices (e.g. uni)

Question 5

What are the cultural attitudes of parents?

Answer 5

Sugarman argued that the difference in attitudes between the classes