Education sociologists consensus theories

Secondary socialisation

Durkheim

Education is individualistic and not competitive

Hargreaves 1982

Organical analogy

Parsons

unequal rewards to ficilitate meritocracy

Davis and Moore

private schools do better due to parentocracy

Davis and Moore

Ideological state apparatus

Althusser

Correspondence principle

Bowles and Gintis 1976

Anti school subculture learning to labour

Paul Williams 1977

Habitus culture or worldview is associated with social class or group

Bourdieu

Different language codes of social classes

Bernstein

Hidden curiculum taught patriarchy

Heaton anf Lawson 1996

London schoolgirls in the 1970s had different priorites than now from domestic to career due to 1970 Equal Pay Act and 1976 Sex Discrimination Act

Sue Sharpe 1996

Identical twins in different enviroments have similar IQs

Jensen and Eysenck

middle class 11+ child of average intellegence does butter than working class child of average intellegence

Douglas 1964

Working class families less interested in social mobility than middle class families

Sugarman 1970

Working class parents took less interest in school and education and dont get the best out of the system

Douglas 1964

Cultural deprivation

Bourdieu

Teachers label students

Howard Becker

School textbooks favour middle class habitus elaborate and restrictive code

Basil Bernstein

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