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<<Functionalists-<<

  • Durkheim - specialist skills and social solidarity

    teaches to fit into workplace and the join students together, eg- pshe values lessons

  • Parsons - focal socialising agency

    transitions from primary socialisation values and norms to workplace norms and values. Bridge between family and world. Particularistic standards to universalistic standards

  • Davis & Moore - role allocation, sifting and sorting

    placing students into suitable jobs for their skill set

<<Class - Marxism<<

  • Althussar - ideological state apparatus

making working class students fail institutionally and making them think its their fault, not the systems

  • Bowles and Gintis - myth of meritocracy and correspondence principle

    • myth - system claims to be fair for all, but it only advantages MC and disregards WC
    • principle - close relationship between society and education. Hierarchy, fragmentation, external reward, alienation

  • Willis “the lads” study

    12 WC lads who reject education end end up in manual jobs as a result of not getting an education.

  • Bernstein - language codes

    restricted code for WC so fail and elaborated for MC so succeed since system built around elaborated code

  • Bourdieu - cultural capital (LAPS)

    • MC have more access to leisure so have more cultural capital eg- museums and literature

  • Sugarman - subcultural traits MV vs WC

  • Gerwitz - privileged vs unprivileged skilled choosers

    WC and MC have different abilities of choice and therefore WC get placed in worse schools

  • Leech and Campus - selection by mortgage

    MC can afford to live in catchment of good schools and WC cannot so don’t get into good schools

<<Gender - Feminists and Antifeminists?<<

  • Archer - hyper heterosexual identity

    WC victims of symbolic violence and do not get symbolic capital

  • Sue sharp - girls aspirations

    1970s vs 1990s

    from family and marriage to career and success

  • McRobbie - bedroom culture

    girls stay in and study w/ friends but boys go out and play football w/ friends instead

  • Mitsos & Browne - coursework

    coursework favours girls > boys so system now benefits girls to succeed further than boys which the men hate

  • Sewell - feminsation of education

    fears new education system is built to benefit girls in school eg- more female teachers hence feminine teaching styles

<<Marketisation of education - NEW RIGHT<<

  • Chubb & Moe - vouchers for WC kids

    claim system does not benefit WC at all so need them to access education w/ vouchers to get same chance as MC

  • Marie David - parentocracy

    parents changing education system and have more choice when choosing their childs education

  • Bartlett - League tables, cream skimming and silt shifting

    choosing MC, girls and Asians to boost league table position and avoid others, especially black boys

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  1. A-C economy (Gillborn and Youdell) educational triage, disregard b+ and d- and focus on c/d to boost league tables.
  2. Gewitz - MC advantage - privileged and unprivileged skilled choosers
  3. Leech and Campos - selection by mortgage so MC advantage

<<Ethnicity<<

  • Internal factors - factors inside schools
    • Ethnocentric curriculum - educational syllabus made surrounding white history and white bias history. EM children struggle to learn this history
    • Pupil Identities - Archer
    • ideal pupil - white MC w/ natural ability
    • Pathologised pupil - Asian WC, overachiever
    • Demonised pupil - black or white WC underachiever and peer led
  • External Factors - factors outside school
    • Language barriers
    • English not as a first language so cannot understand teachers and texts
    • Bernstein language codes - restricted code
      • restricted code as EM are more likely WC
    • Asian work ethic & Tiger mums
    • Asian kids are more likely to have pressuring parents so try harder in school and succeed

[[CLASS, GENDER, ETHNICITY AND FUNTONALISM CAN BE USED TO EVAL EACHOTHER eg- eval for class would be that boys are the ones who suffer in education not working class, using Sewell’s feminisation of education[[