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2. Who argued that boys fall behind because education has become 'feminised', schools no longer nurture 'masculine' traits, e.g competitiveness and leadership?

  • Epstein
  • Sewell
  • Francis
  • Evans

3. 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
  • Where the middle class use their greater economic and cultural capital to give their children an advantage by using it to obtain educational capital
  • A prediction made about something or someone (e.g he's stupid, thus he's bound to fail)
  • Definitions we attach to someone or something to make sense of them, (e.g middle-class students are labelled as 'bright' and 'motivated')

4. Which of these sociologists is a cultural theorist?

  • Gillborn and Youdell
  • Feinstein
  • Becker
  • Ball

5. 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?

  • Francis
  • Fuller
  • Sharpe
  • Beck and Beck-Gernsheim

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