Education sociologists - class

Becker

• negative labelling of students leads to self-fulfilling prophecy

• teachers judge students based on stereotypes

• how close students are to the ‘ideal student’ who is hardworking and MC

Rosenthal and Jacobsen

• the ‘halo effect’ / the self fulfilling prophecy

• teachers judge and classify students constantly

• students ar stereotyped from non academic information (appearance) as either thick or bright

Bourdieu

• children of middle class parents are likely to have cultural assets

• cultural assets include knowledge, behaviour and attitudes

• having this allows them to succeed in education and society

Bowles and Gintis

• education produces an obedient workforce through:

• a hidden curriculum

• correspondence between the social relationships of school and the workplace

Douglas

• link between poor housing and educational achievement

• material deprivation

Bernstein

• discovered language / speech codes

• restricted code was used amongst working class families

• elaborate code used amounts t middle class families

• restricted code puts we children at an educational disadvantage