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6. What did Rosenthal + Jacobson find in their study?

  • Found that teachers were one of the reasons that the 'self-fulfilling prophecy' occured due to them subconciously helping students that seemed smarter or looked like the 'idea pupil' (Middle Class)
  • Found that teachers judged pupils depending on how closely they fitted their image of the 'ideal student'
  • Found that teachers used stereotypical notions of 'ability' to stream pupils and found that teachers are less likely to see W/C students as having ability, as a result placing them in lower streams
  • Found that Teachers placed students in groups depending on their background and apprearance

7. What sociologist carried out an interactionist study on labelling?

  • Becker
  • Rist
  • Rostenthal + Jacobson
  • Gillborn + Youdell

8. Why do some sociologists believe the labelling theory is 'deterministic?'

  • Because it just assumes that the pupil will accept their label. Many students are anomalies and reject or ignore the labels they are given
  • They do not
  • Sociologiusts all believe in the labelling theory, no one thinks it is deterministic
  • Because it just assumes people will reject the theory when they can actually accept it

9. What did Gillborn + Youdell find in their study?

  • Found that teachers were one of the reasons that the 'self-fulfilling prophecy' occured due to them subconciously helping students that seemed smarter or looked like the 'idea pupil' (Middle Class)
  • Found that teachers used stereotypical notions of 'ability' to stream pupils and found that teachers are less likely to see W/C students as having ability, as a result placing them in lower streams
  • Found that teachers judged pupils depending on how closely they fitted their image of the 'ideal student'
  • Found that Teachers placed students in groups depending on their background and apprearance

10. What sociologist came up with the' A-C economy?

  • Rist
  • Rostenthal + Jacobson
  • Gillborn + Youdell
  • Becker

11. What does Fuller argue?

  • He is not an actual sociologist
  • Suggests that no student can reject a label they are stuck with it and have to follow in that labels path
  • Suggests that even if a student is labelled they can reject it
  • Students can only accept their labels

12. What is the correct definition of; 'Self-defeating prophecy?'

  • A prediction that prevents what it predicts from happening, this is known as; 'the prophet's dilemma'
  • Where the labelling process failed
  • Where a prediction does not become true, this is because the prediction was incorrect in the first place, this is called; 'the prophet's dilemma'
  • Where a prophecy fails to come true

13. What sociologist suggests that students often 'drift' into different responses depending on what class they're in or who is teaching them?

  • John Furlong
  • Lacey
  • Peter Woods
  • Archer

14. What sociologist studied an American Kindergarten?

  • Rist
  • Gillborn + Youdell
  • Becker
  • Rostenthal + Jacobson

15. What is the correct definition of the 'Self-fulfilling prophecy?'

  • Where a prediction made about a person or group becomes true simply because it has been made
  • Where a prophecy is fulfilled
  • Where teachers label someone and then it becomes true
  • It is where a prophecy comes true due to fate

16. What sociologist suggests that there are other responses instead of a subculture?

  • John Furlong
  • Peter Woods
  • Lacey
  • Becker

17. What did Rist find in her study?

  • Found that teachers used stereotypical notions of 'ability' to stream pupils and found that teachers are less likely to see W/C students as having ability, as a result placing them in lower streams
  • Found that Teachers placed students in groups depending on their background and apprearance
  • Found that teachers were one of the reasons that the 'self-fulfilling prophecy' occured due to them subconciously helping students that seemed smarter or looked like the 'idea pupil' (Middle Class)
  • Found that teachers judged pupils depending on how closely they fitted their image of the 'ideal student'

18. What did Becker find in her study?

  • Found that teachers judged pupils depending on how closely they fitted their image of the 'ideal student'
  • Found that Teachers placed students in groups depending on their background and apprearance
  • Found that teachers were one of the reasons that the 'self-fulfilling prophecy' occured due to them subconciously helping students that seemed smarter or looked like the 'idea pupil' (Middle Class)
  • Found that teachers used stereotypical notions of 'ability' to stream pupils and found that teachers are less likely to see W/C students as having ability, as a result placing them in lower streams