Sociology Education Revision
Durkheim research
Prerparing young people for life through meritocratic values (postiiton through skills & qualifications)
Schultz research
Develops human captial, a trained and qualified labour force which benefits the economy
Davis & Moore research
Edcation allocated people for roles, everyone has equality of opporutunity.
Althusser research
Education system is an ideological state apparatus.
Passing on ruling class ideology which justifies a captialist system.
Bourdieu research
Middle and upper class have access to cultural capital, helps them to succeed.
Illich & Friere
Encourages acceptance of exsisiting class inequalities.
Bowls & Gintis research
School prepares young people for life through the hidden curriculm, operates in the "long shadow of work."
Define Hidden Curriculm
How learning is organized.
Chubb & Moe research
Education should be concerned with training the workforce.
Francis research
School reinforces & reproduces elements of patriachal control thorugh gendered verbal/phyisical behaviour.
Cooper & Stewart research
Poorer children have worse cognitive, behavioural & health outcomes.
Waldfogel & Washbrook research
Children from low-income families are more likely to have dark, unclean, unsafe homes.
Define cultural deprivation
Young people fail in schools due to inadequate sociolization, inadequate language.
Define Endogenous
Privatization in education (legue tables)
Define Exogenous
Privatization of Education (ostead, teacher training)
Bernstein Research
2 types, restricted & eloborated code
Bourdieu research
Cultural Capital- Social assets of a person (style of dress/speech which promotes social mobility)
Waterhouse research
Found teacher labelling can create a self fufilling prophecy, act in response to predictions made of them.
Becker research
Ideal Pupil, attributes like hard working, conformists
Hempel-Jorgensen research
Similar conception of the i"deal learner" , characteristics they believe their teacher would want.
Rosenthal & Jacobson research
Tested self fufilling prophecy. Negative effects on working class white & black boys.
Ball research
- Found top stream/set students were warmed up to achieve.
- Low stream/set studants cooled down, folllow lower, vocational courses.
Keddie research
Found lower stream students are not given the same access to classroom knowledge, less priority from teachers.
Gillbourne & Youdell research
3 groups
1) those likely to succeed with no extra help
2) those who may succeed with extra help
3) no hopers, unlikely to succeed with extra help
Laceys work
-Differentation- Pupils ranked & grouped into streams & sets.
-Polarisation- 2 groups, top stream & low stream
Willis research
Observe 12 working class lads, developed a anti school subculture, rejected schooling.
Fuller research
Found black girls overcome their label
Lobban (1974) research
Found evidence of gender stereotyping in childrens books with women linked to traditional domestic roles
Colley research
Peer pressure, gender perceptions
- arts & humanities seen as feminine
- science & technology seen as masculine