Sociologists

Althusser

ISA - controls people through ideologies and produces and legitimises class inequalities

Davis and Moore

Role allocation. Shifting and sorting pupils into future roles. Using sets and streams to ensure top jobs are filled by the most qualified

Durkheim

Education builds social solidarity by teaching shared norms and values. School is “society in miniature”

Bartlett

cream skimming and silt shifting

McRobbie

Bedroom culture

Parsons

School as a bridge, and meritocracy

Bowles and gintis

Correspondence principle and hidden curriculum. School mirrors workplace to create submissive workforce

Bourdieu

Cultural capital

Becker

Labelling and ideal pupil

Lacey

Differentiation and polarisation

Gilborn

Institutional racism and educational triage

Archer

Nike identities and hyper heterosexual feminine identities (makeup, boyfriends to gain status which teachers dislike)

Ball

Privatisation and myth of parentocracy (privileged choosers vs disconnected)

Feinstein

Parental interest. Found parents interest in child’s education is one of the most important factors

Sugarman

people is WC subs —> fatalism, collectivism, immediate gratification and present time orientation

Fuller

Studied black girls who were labelled, but rejected them and achieved well

Cecile wright

Found teachers assumed Asians were poor at English, left them out of class discussion and spoke to them in very simplistic ways

Francis

While educational success became central to girls identities, WC boys became more laddish to construct masculine identities

Sewell

Schools have lost traditional masculine qualities (competitiveness and leadership) and now value feminine (quiet, passive compliance). Feminisation of education

David

Parentocracy

Howard

Diet and health of WC

Sharpe

Shifting female priorities

Lupton

Asian work ethic and family culture

Alexander

Panic policy borrowing from other countries