Social Class (internal) - Key Sociologists

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What did Howard Becker study?
Found that teachers had an image of the ideal pupil, typically M/C students. W/C students were the furthest away as they were considered badly behaved
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What did Dunne and Gazely find?
Found that teachers normalised the underachievement of of W/C pupils as they believed that w/c parents were uninterested in their childs education. Were more likely to help M/C underachievement
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What did Rosenthal and Jacobson study?
Told teachers that students (randomly selected) would be 'late bloomers'. Found that teachers treated these 'late bloomers' students differently. EG, warm climate and asked them more questions etc, led to a self fulfilling prophecy.
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What did Gillborn and Youdell study?
Found that pressur eon schools to gain good league tables resuly led to streaming. led to an A-C ecomony these were 3 groups - 1) those students who will pass anyway 2) students who pass with help 3) worthless louts
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What did Colin Lacey study?
Argued that streaming leads to differentiation and polarisation. Teachers categorise students and then pupils respond by moving to one of the opposite poles. Pro school or anti school
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What did Bourdieu study?
Suggests that the education system is a m/c habitus, the ways of acting are and being are m/c. Symbolic voilence led to w/c students to seek alternative ways of gaining symbolic capital - nike identities
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Found that teachers normalised the underachievement of of W/C pupils as they believed that w/c parents were uninterested in their childs education. Were more likely to help M/C underachievement

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