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Summary A Level AQA Sociology- Education (Social class internal factors)
Detailed notes on the education topic of A level sociology, including many key studies/sociologists
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SOCIAL CLASS INTERNAL FACTORS- LABELLING
Teachers attach labels based off of...
o Stereotyped assumptions about the pupil's
class background
o Not...
The pupil's actual ability or attitude
Becker's interactionist study of labelling:
o 60 Chicago high school teachers
,o Found they judged pupils according to how
closely they fitted an image of the 'ideal pupil'
o Key factors in this judgement:
Work
Conduct
Appearance
WC seen as...
badly behaved
o
MC seen as…
close to ideal pupil
Hempel-Jorgensen's more recent study
found that...
Different teachers have different
notions of the ideal pupil
WC school - ideal was quiet, passive
and obedient (good behaviour), not
their ability
, MC school - fewer discipline
problems, ideal student defined in
terms of personality and academic
ability
Dunne and Gazeley argue that...
o 'Schools persistently produce WC
underachievement' because of the labels and
assumptions of teachers
o Found that in 9 English, state, secondary
schools...
Teachers 'normalised' the
underachievement of WC pupils, seemed
unconcerned by and felt they could do
little or nothing about it, whereas they
felt they could overcome the
underachievement of MC pupils
Why?
Teachers labelled WC parents as
uninterested
MC parents as supportive
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