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Sociology Education
OCR Education Sociologists
| Sociologists and their ideas | Ideas |
|---|---|
| Willettes | Selection at 11 doesn't work |
| Durkheim () | Functionalist, Moral education, Division of Labour |
| Moral Education | Social solidarity, sense of belonging based on shared beliefs/values |
| Division of Labour | Education about preparing children for work |
| Parsons () | Functionalist, A bridge between school and work, education and value consensus |
| Bridge between school and work | Applies universalistic values to children rather than particularistic |
| Education and Value Consensus | 3 key values: Individual achievement, equality of opportunity, Role allocation |
| Althusser | Education as a ideological state apparatus |
| Ideological state apparatus | Accepts your place in the capitalist system |
| Bowles and Gintis | Social reproduction, Myth of meritocracy, Hidden curriculum |
| Social reproduction | Socialises children to accept their role as obedient workers |
| Willis () | Neo-Marxist, Counter school culture |
| Counter-school culture | Lads attached no value to academic success or qualifications |
| Anthony Halsey () | Social Democratic, Middle-class children do better than working class children |
| Holland et al | Link between HE and salary |
| Alison Wolf | We overeducate in the UK |
| Illich | Should get rid of schools |
| Summerhill | Free schools, pupils can choose what lessons they attend |
| Dale Spender () | Feminist, Curriculum is male biased |
| Newman and Huxley () | Feminist, Education should be to develop well-rounded humans |
| Smith and Nobel | Lack of funds is a barrier to learning |
| Blanden and Gregg | Direct relationship between income and educational attainment |
| Callender and Jackson | Debt aversion kept students from going to uni |
| Feinstein | Most significant factor in class differences is parental interest |
| Bernstein | Working class students use restricted code |
| Labov | Restrictive speech is only inferior because the education system treats it that way |
| Bourdieu () | Marxist, Success in education relies on possessing cultural capital |
| Diane Reay | A mother's cultural capital is more important than their effort |
| Hargreaves et al () | Interactionalist, Teachers classify students when they meet |
| Gillborn and Youdell () | Interactionalist, Allocate pupils to sets based on how they've been typed |
| Dunne and Gazeley () | Interactionalist, Teachers made negative predictions for working class students |
| Rosenthal and Jacobson () | Interactionalist, Teacher's bias affect how well a child will do |
| William and Bartholomew | Pupils in higher sets in maths gained advantage |
| Mac and Ghail | Boys from more skilled backgrounds tend to do better and be less oppositional |
| Helen Connor et al | Ethnic minorities are likely to take HE qualifications |
| Dustmann, Machin and Schonberg | Ethnic minorities begin doing worse on English/Maths but they catch up and overtake white children |
| Kingdon and Casen | Nearly half of low achievers were white British males |
| Platt | Ethnic minorities have a smaller gap between FSM students and others |
| Modood | Many parents have more cultural capital than you expect |
| Archer and Francis | Both WC and MC Chinese parents invest time, money and energy into their children |
| Strand | Poor immigrant groups see education as a way out of poverty |
| Dustmann et al | Children who have English as a second language catch up as they progress through school |
| Sewell | Only 18% of black students fit into the rebel subculture |
| Cameron | Some black school boys choose to perform badly to avoid undermining their masculinity |
| Mirza | Black girls were often denied opportunities because of low expectations |
| Madeline Arnot | Growing numbers of female teachers have acted as positive role models |
| Geoff Hannan | Boys relate by doing, girls relate by talking |
| Burns and Bracy | Girls put more effort into homework |
| Ann Elizabeth Mayer | Gender apartheid has been ignored in favour of racial apartheid |
| Ann Russo | The campaign to open up educational opportunities was an excuse to justify American empire building |
| Gilborn | Gov policies demand that ethnic minorities assimilate into British society |