What does Durkheim argue is a function of education?
It promotes social solidarity and equips individuals with specialist skills so that they're prepared for work
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What does Gillborn and Youdell argue?
White female teachers have low expectations of black boys' potential academic performance and classroom behaviour, thus they have racialized expectations
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Which ethnic minority performs the best academically?
Chinese and Indian
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Which sociologist found in 2011 that some girls aimed for a professional career to support themselves, but many working-class girls with poor job prospects have stereotyped aspirations for marriage and children?
Fuller
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Why do Mtisos and Browne argue that girls do better than boys in coursework?
They're more conscientious and better organised, they also mature earlier and can concentrate for longer
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Who argued that boys fall behind because education has become 'feminised', schools no longer nurture 'masculine' traits, e.g competitiveness and leadership?
Sewell
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What is the 'male gaze'?
A form of social control where male pupils and teachers look girls up and down as sexual objects. Boys who don't participate may be labelled as 'gay' - also a form of social control
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Why does Willis reject Bowles and Gintis' version of the correspondence principle?
Working-class pupils may resist attempts to indoctrinate them in school. They are able to partially see through the meritocratic ideology that claims work-class pupils can get on through hard work
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What is streaming?
An extreme and institutionalised form of labelling; it works by putting all students of similar ability together into the same class for all subjects. 'Bright' students are grouped together at the top and 'thick' ones are put together at the bottom
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What does Gillborn and Youdell argue?
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White female teachers have low expectations of black boys' potential academic performance and classroom behaviour, thus they have racialized expectations
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Which ethnic minority performs the best academically?
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Which sociologist found in 2011 that some girls aimed for a professional career to support themselves, but many working-class girls with poor job prospects have stereotyped aspirations for marriage and children?
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Why do Mtisos and Browne argue that girls do better than boys in coursework?
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