Sociology- interactionist
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- Created on: 07-03-17 09:49
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- Interactionist view of education
- labelling
- becker (1971) and Rist (1970) found teachers making educational judgements on the basis of social class and appearance and favoured mc children
- Hargreaves et al found tezchers initially made judgements based on 7 characteristics associated with social class. these were: appearance how far the pupils conformed to discipline their ability and enthusiasm for work
- Hargreaves et al- 3 stages of labelling. all 3 must be completed for it to be likely to stick 1) used in public 2) Used frequently 3) supported by other teachers
- pupils build up their self image of their ability in school by the messages they receive from teachers. pupils may eventually come to see themselves in the light of their labels and act in accordance with them. this is SFP
- Self-fulfilling prophecy. this happens after a teacher labels a student. , if a teacher labels a lower class student as
a ‘failure’ it influences their behaviour towards that pupil which leads the
pupil to act how the teacher expects them to thus proving the teachers
predictions right.
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) wanted to test the SFP . researchers administered IQ tests to students in a California school. 20% of students randomly selected and teachers were informed that these students would be expected to show rapid intellectual growth when in fact they performed no better than others in iq test. when the iq test was repeated in a year the 20% of students that were selected had performed better than average. it was concluded that the progress was due to the teachers expectations, they had come to believe the teachers prophecy about them.
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Streaming and Setting
- Stephen Ball found that children of the same ability,those whose fathers were manual workers were more likely to be placed in lower streams.
- once separated into different bands their behaviour began to diverge. pupils in lower bands were porrly behaved and lazy. Ball attributed this to teachers having stereotypical views.band one pupils were encouraged in education whereas lower bands were directed towards practical courses.
- ANTI-SCHOOL SUBCULTURE
- research shows those in lower bands form anti-school subcultures. they cannot reach the goals of the school and reject them to replace them with their own goals
- Hargreaves related the emergence of subcultures to labelling and streaming. lower stream boys rejected school values, faced with the problem of being unable to obtain status in school they attempted to project their sense of self worth by forming groups who rejected school values
- Burns and Bracey (2001) argue boys compensate for status frustration by joining anti-school subcultures
- Stephen Ball found that children of the same ability,those whose fathers were manual workers were more likely to be placed in lower streams.
- Criticisms
- Paul Willis argued anti-school subculture was due to cultural deprivation. it was the culture of the street the boys were brought up in and the culture of their fathers.
- Margaret Fuller doesn't accept people will automatically fulfil their labels. she researched a group of young black girls and found that the girls resented their labels and worked hard to succeed to prove teachers wrong REJECTED SFP
- labelling
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