Social Class + Achievement - internal factors

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  • Social class - internal factors
    • Labelling
      • Becker (1971) - judged if they fit the 'ideal pupil' (usually middle class). Judged on work, conduct and appearance
      • Hemple-Jorgensen (2009) - ideal varies on school
        • W/C - quiet and passive, M/C - academic
    • Self-fulfilling prophecy
      • internalising a teachers label until it become trues
      • Rosenthal & Jacobsen (1986) - picked random 20% at a elementary school, told teachers they will do well, given more support, mode progress
    • Streaming
      • separates children based on ability, difficult to move up
    • subcultures
      • Lacey (1970) - polarisation and differentiation
      • Pro-school: m/c who committed to schools norms and values
      • anti-school: low streams, low self esteem, seek status elsewhere
    • pupils responses
      • ingratiation, ritualism, retreatism, rebellion
    • Habitus: Archer (2010)
      • taken for granted ways of thinking, response to class structure
      • symbolic capitals and violence
        • school devalues w/c habitus - withholding of symbolic capital (symbolic violence), in order to gain capital w/c would have to change
      • Nike identities
        • style = self worth, status and value
        • girls have hyper-feminine identities
        • teachers oppose street styles 'tasteless'

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