Willis (1977)

• What sample did Willis use?

  He studies 12 working class lads in the Midlands over two years as they finished education and went into the workplace
• What did Willis describe the behaviour of the lads as?

  Anti-school e.g smoking, bunking lessons and setting off fire extinguishers
• Willis found that their research fit perfectly into what?

  The factory floor work they were expecting to go into
• What did this study show the importance of?

  Peer groups as an agent of socialisation and how little an impact education can have on the lives on some students
• What did Willis' research defy?

  The correspondence principle - the "lads" weren't docile or obedient