A2 Sociology - Paper 1 Education Summary (Topics 1-3)

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  • A2 Sociology - Paper 1 Education Summary (Topics 1-3)
    • Topic 1: Class External Factors
      • Cultural Deprivation
        • Language
          • Bernstien: Elaboarated and Restricted code (context-bound vs context-free)
        • Parent's Education
          • Poor, inconsistent dicipline leads to bad teacher realtionships
          • Bernstien + Young: middle-class investment in educational toys and activities
        • Working-class subculture
          • Sugarman: Fatalism, Collectivism, Present-time Orientation and Immediate Gratification
        • Comensationary Education
          • Operation Head Start, Education Action Zones, Sure Start, and Sesame Street
        • Bourdieu: Cultural, Economic and Educational Capital
      • Material Deprivation
        • Housing
          • Overcrowding (homework and sleep). lack of safe play space, illness from damp, and psycological stress from temporary housing
        • Health and Diet
          • Howard: Lower intake of vitamins and nutrients = lack of concentration and increased absences (+ more mental/ behavioural issues)
        • Fear of Debt
          • Local unis + London met 16% dropout rate
        • Costs of Education
          • Bull: 'The costs of free schooling' + children in part-time work
    • Topic 2: Class Internal Factors
      • Labelling
        • Jorgensen: Different types of ideal student: behaviour vs ability
        • Rist: Different primary school tables: Tigers vs Clowns
      • Self-fufilling Prophecy
        • Jacobson: Spurters study
      • Streaming
        • Hard to get out once in lower set + IQ drops
        • Streaming and the 'A-C Economy'
        • Youdell: Educational Ttiage
      • Pupil Subcultures
        • Pro-school vs anti-school subcultures
        • Lacey: Diffferentiation and Polaisation
        • Woods: Intergration, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion
      • Pupils' class identities
        • Sybolic Capital/Violence
          • Devalusing the working-class habitus = symbolic violence
        • Nike Idenities
          • working-cllass habitus of self-expression = gain symbolic capital
          • Archer: clashes with the dress-code and ideal pupil of the school (study of catholic boys after (11= exams - buiiled on non-uniform day)
        • Habitus
          • Preferecnes, lifestyle and consumption - middle-class habitus has capital to run the school
    • Topic 3: Ethnic Differences in Achievement
      • Cultural deprivation
        • Liguistic/Intellectual Skills
          • Poor grasp of english language + inadequate black language = restricted code
        • Family Structures
          • Murray: Black Carribean families headed by lone mothers - inadequate parenting/ dicipline and poor socialisation
          • Pryce: Black faliure resulting from colonial opression
          • Asian work ethic - home mirrors education system
      • Labelling/Teacher Racism
        • Gillborn + Youdell: 'radicalised expectations' of black pupils
        • Asian pupils - talked to siplistically + names mispronounced
      • Pupil Identities
        • Archer: Ideal Pupil Identity, Pathologised Pupil Identity, and Demonised Pupil Identity
        • Chinese students both praised and viewed negativley for not being 'naturally clever'
      • Pupil Subcultures
        • Fuller: Black girls didn't accept teachers labels, nor did chinese students at sixth form
        • Sewell: Black boys responses - The rebels, the conformists, the retreatests, and the innovators
      • Institutional Racism
        • The Ethnicentric Curriculum
          • Tokenism, languages and history lessons
        • Gillborn: Assessment of black students - high acheivers to low achievers
      • Material Deprivation
        • Half of Bangaladesh/Pakistani workers earn under £7 hourly (+ twice as likely to be unemployed compared to whites) Asylum seekers can't work
        • Women sometimes not allowed to work due to traditions such as Purdah

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