Education Sociology Theorists

Durkheim

Functionalism

Society in miniature

Murray

New Right

Marx

Marxism

Althusser

Superstructure

Firestone

Radical feminism - complete separation

Ansley

Marxist feminism - ‘takers of shit’ (male punching bag)

Goffman

Dramaturgical approach

Cooley

Looking glass self

Becker

Labelling theory

Lyotard

Meta-narratives

Parsons

Meritocracy

Davis and Moore

Role allocation

Chubb and Moe

Parentocracy/Parent’s Survey

Marketisation

Bowles and Gintis

Correspondence principle

Ball

Streaming

Gillborn and Youdell

Educational triage/A-C economy

Barry Sugarman

Working class subculture

Howard

Poor diet and health

Bull

Free school comes with hidden costs

Tanner

Material deprivation

Ridge

Work takes over the lives of children

Basil Bernstein

Language codes

Keddi

Cultural deprivation is an excuse of poor achievement

Rosenthal and Jacobson

Pygmalion (IQ test)

Gerwitz

Parental attitudes (choosers)

Ray Rist

Tigers, cardinals, clowns (self-fulfilling prophecy)

Douglas and Feinstein

Middle class parents are more involved in education - parent’s evening

Douglas

Parent’s evening

Streaming locks teacher’s expectations

Ball

Streaming leads to social class inequalities

Colin Lacey

Differentiation and polarisation

Paul Willis

Learning to Labour

Bourdieu

Symbolic violence

McRobbie

Study of girl’s magazines reflecting gender stereotypes

Sue Sharpe

Just like a girl (gender quake)

Edward and David

Gender socialisation

Diane Reay

Working class girls are more likely to take on stereotypical careers

Sewell

Feminisation of education
Black boys lack fatherly nurturing (tough love)

Pupil responses

Gorard

Coursework

Swann and Graddol

Most interactions between teachers and girls are educational as opposed to with boys

Jackson

Laddish subculture

Fiona Norman

Gender domains

Carol Fuller

Gendered subject choice prevalent in working class

Rex

Racism in wider society

Wood

Job applications with ethnic and white names

Archer and Francis

Asian work ethic

Lupton

Close knit families

Mirza

Young, Female and Black (myth of underachievement)

Gillborn

Locked in inequality (institutional racism)

Myth of the black challenge

Mary Fuller

Black girls self-refuting prophecy