Education - Social Class - Flashcards in A Level and IB Sociology

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Created on: 07-05-13 09:17

Becker

Interviewed 60 Chicago High School teachers, and found they compared pupils to their 'Ideal Pupil' (a Middle Class pupil)

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Rist

Studied American Kindergartens, and found that teachers used children's background information to sort them into seperate groups. Middle Class were labelled as 'Tigers' and sat towards the front, and Working Class were 'Clowns' and sat at the back.

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Rosenthal and Jacobson

Studied Californian Primary Schools, and told the school they had designed a test specifically for spurters. They selected 20% of students at random and told the teachers these were the spurters. When they returned a year later, half had improved.

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Lacey

Pupil Subcultures develop for two reasons: Polarisation & Differentiation.

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Lacey

Studied High Town Boys' Grammar Schools and found that there were two main subcultures within the school - Anti-School Subcultures (Middle Class) and Pro-School Subcultures (Working Class)

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Hargreaves

Lower Class boys were 'Triple Failures' - they failed the 11+, were placed in lower streams, and were labelled as 'worthless louts'.

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Gillborn and Youdell

Schools use an 'Educational Triage'. (The process of categorising pupils into three seperate groups - 'Those who will Pass', 'Those with Potentional' and 'Hopeless Cases')

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Bartlett

Popular Schools: 'Cream Skim' (select high ability pupils who gain good grades) & 'Silt Shift' (don't enrol pupils who have learning difficulties who gain low grades).

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